Top 69 Quotes About Tacky
#2. There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.
Brett Ratner
#3. When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.
Niecy Nash
#4. Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.
Paul Neilan
#5. Do you think they're going to buy that a guy in tacky leather chaps dances like this?" I scoffed when he twirled me back into his embrace.
"Keep it up, and I'll put you in the chaps." He didn't smile, but I sensed an undercurrent of amusement.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#6. Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena - Warrior Princess. If you don't do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.
Harry Lloyd
#7. It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.
Caroline Dhavernas
#8. I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.
Jordana Brewster
#9. You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#10. The name is something we thought about for a long time, and we wanted it to be a girl's name, but we didn't want it to be 'the Jesses,' ... We were very conscious of not wanting to make it a twin thing, because we think that's really tacky.
Lisa Origliasso
#12. We pay people and reward them for greed and sleaze . When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure pay cheque and a tacky lingerie line ... selling filth so you can get your face on Time magazine ... From Jukebox
Saira Viola
#13. I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette Midler
#14. I should have known you'd have no taste," Olivia says and rubs her temples. "Tacky from the tips of her toes, to her hair colored with what I can only assume is actual bleach." She turns and points to John. "Hey, you would know. Does the carpet match the drapes?
Katelin LaMontagne
#15. But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.
Truman Capote
#16. When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure payout and a line of tacky lingerie in the works
Saira Viola
#17. I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with tacky sexy. I mean, it's not even tacky when you're young. But when you get older, it's just tacky.
Andie MacDowell
#18. I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.
Big Sean
#19. Lewis and I played my-God-how-tacky-is-that? with Patrick's collection of objets d'crap, finally coming to the conclusion that only a going-out-of-business sale at a whorehouse could really explain a lot of it.
Rachel Caine
#20. He should hate those nails. He normally considered that sort of thing tacky or gaudy, but damn if that look didn't work on her. And because it worked on her - it was really working on him.
Shelly Laurenston
#21. I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#22. Mace really wanted to shift right then and there. Rip the mans throat out and bring his lifeless corpse back to Dez as a kinda pre-wedding gift. Although right in the middle of Macy's ... that might be a bit tacky. Even for him.
Shelly Laurenston
#23. I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn't think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I put on lipstick and a short skirt and look what can happen.
Marcy Dermansky
#24. I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.
Sasha Grey
#25. Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.
Malvina Reynolds
#26. If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
Tom Ford
#27. It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.
Steven Brust
#28. I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.
Kim Harrison
#29. The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
Vivienne Westwood
#30. Tacky T-shirts that said things like "My crazy Grandma traveled to India and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." They
Chris Colfer
#31. I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
Bette Midler
#32. There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.
Big Sean
#33. The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!
Dean Acheson
#35. It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
Pat Conroy
#36. And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Malvina Reynolds
#37. Founder Rouse wanted to challenge a lot of ingrained biases in our culture; taste was not among them. He gave people the ticky-tacky houses they wanted. The only real choices were brick or wood siding, a Baltimore or a D.C. prefix for your phone.
Laura Lippman
#38. I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Every inch of the house is covered in flowers and lace and screams tacky. It's like Martha Stewart vomitted, and this is the crap that came out.
Victoria Scott
#40. The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.
J.K. Rowling
#41. I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
Terence McKenna
#42. Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children's books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic. We also love "Tacky the Penguin", and I love "Guji Guji" - all because they teach great life lessons without being teachy.
Abbie Schiller
#43. It felt like religious kitsch, as tacky as a black velvet painting, the kind of fantasy that appealed to people who ate too much fried food, spanked their kids, and had no problem with the theory that their loving God invented AIDS to punish the gays.
Tom Perrotta
#44. Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.
Buddy Wakefield
#45. Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels ... tacky.
Edmund White
#46. Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
Paula Deen
#47. Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#48. Yes, if by 'sacred' they mean 'tacky,' and by 'hill' they mean 'gift shop,' then by all means, it is one helluva sacred hill.
Natasha Wittman
#49. A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
Lapo Elkann
#50. I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.
Jennifer Lopez
#51. Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.
Andrew Evans
#52. Seinfeld was typically American in that show. He was a pretty funny guy, but he had no sense of style. Tacky like a Texan tux. Tasteless dressing and tasteful jokes. That's Seinfeld for me. I would have preferred it the other way around.
Hallgrimur Helgason
#53. It's stylish to have people over. But unstylish to make them bring food. It's so tacky, making everybody appear at the door with a dish. Better to order in, use a caterer or bring prepared food into your kitchen.
Letitia Baldrige
#54. We're not going to have a party when half of our friends ... can't do that thing we're doing. We're not going to ask them to come celebrate a right they don't have. That's just tacky! Forget like anything else, it's like really tacky for us
Kristen Bell
#55. [N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.
Sheri Holman
#56. Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
Thom Filicia
#57. I actually really love the Kate Moss Rimmel lipsticks. Sometimes I get afraid of different colours. I want to try a bright pink, but I don't want to look tacky!
Georgia May Jagger
#58. The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
Irvine Welsh
#59. The restaurant was cliche sprinkled with a pinch of tacky. Beckit tried to reserve judgement as she walked past the rows of bamboo tables, but all she could think was 1980 called and they want their restaurant back.
M.A. Wilder
#60. Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.
Holly Golightly
#61. I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.
Geraldine Page
#62. I win by taking risks. By standing out. Mom hates how I ride Tucker right past the judge as many times as possible in a class. She says it's showboating and it's tacky. Some judges don't like it. Long ago, though, I decided I'd rather win being me than lose by playing it safe.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#63. There was no doubt about it. I was falling for my stepbrother. Long term this would likely result in my ending up on a tacky daytime talk show with other people who had an unnatural love for their relatives.
Eileen Cook
#64. My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.
Jessie J.
#65. I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.
Bipasha Basu
#66. I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
Terence McKenna
#67. The world of tricky-tacky boxes, defined social behaviour, untrammeled egotism, sexism and material acquisitiveness, all powered by insecurity that passes for security, is rarely cajoled, least of all questioned. Much of the magic of of life space contrast has passed out of North American life.
Geoff Mains
#69. You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.
Steven Tyler
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