Best Tacky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Small Orange Fruit

“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.”

Ifs America Culture My Own Too Much Style Appreciate Designer Good Design Stylish Tacky

Author:Tom Ford

“I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.”

Two Self Might Class Middle Talent Mets Late West Middle Class Typical Plague Dinosaurs Gloomy Unicorn Announcing Pests Tacky

Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Speak My Own Specifics Tacky

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.”

Issues Needed My Friends Sexuality I Realized Rama Tacky

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.”

Looks Littles Made Cities Boxes Tacky

Author:Pete Seeger

“I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.”

Lasts Ease Flash Trash Tacky Sleazes

Author:Bette Midler

“There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.”

Feels Kind Lines Depends Unique Bunch Chains Tacky

Author:Big Sean

“I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.”

Thinking Way Chains Tacky

Author:Big Sean

“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.”

Want Stars Differences Jew Rap Diamond Miami Cadillacs Tacky Rolex

Author:Brett Ratner

“Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.”

People Lying Fine Tacky Lying To Yourself

Author:Paul Neilan

“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!”

Bird Tacky Toady

Author:Dean Acheson

“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.”

Feels Happens Next Class Middle Havens Extremes Versions Middle Class Retirement Republic Transition Can't Change Bananas Panama Tacky Makeovers

Author:Andrew Evans

“I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.”

Way Kind Bits Voice Incredibles Edges Fascination Weirdness Denver Tacky Straight Edge

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.”

Starting Unnecessary Beef Tacky

Author:Sasha Grey

“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.”

Feels Looks Stills Sometimes Together Easy Knowing Hair Okay Fingers Silly Hungry Bread Look Up Bites Twists Salad Peaches Tacky

Author:Buddy Wakefield

“I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.”

People Thinking Matter Convince Tacky

Author:Terence McKenna

“I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.”

Believe Universe I Believe Issues Stalking Weirdness Tacky

Author:Terence McKenna

“My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.”

Style Heels Jewelry Ghetto Shorts Chic Mega Tacky

Author:Jessie J

“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.”

Made Done Film Decision Who I Am Tacky

Author:Bipasha Basu

“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.”

Thinking Mean Bigs Hate Interesting Careers Building Integrity Concepts I Hate Agents Pointless Unimportant Fluffy Tacky

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Sexual underwear is tacky.”

Underwear Tacky

Author:Izabella Scorupco

“It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world.”

People World Values Hate Western Spots Bullying Scare Camps Western World Tacky

Author:Jim Goad

“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.”

Made Different Decision Numbers Design Clothes Really Great Great Design Tacky

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

Knows Giving Said Cat Forty Diamond Jewellery Hoot Tacky Tiffany's

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.”

Thinking Feels Littles Hard Hate Asks Involved Please Drama Helpless Unbearable Hate Me Defenders Tacky You Hate Me

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“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.”

Needs Impossible Yankees Tacky Up North

Book:The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

“I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.”

Guy Coffee Hunting Bad Guys Leather Bodyguard Tacky

Author:Kim Harrison

“I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.”

“Trendy is the last stage before tacky.”

Lasts Stage Fashion Fashion Designer Trendy Well Dressed Fashion And Style Fashion Style Fashionista Fashion Design Tacky Fashion Trends Fashion Inspiration Clothes You Wear Simple Style

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“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”

Asks Forget Party Half Gay Celebrate Gay Marriage Tacky

Author:Kristen Bell

“I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.”

Women Memorable Popularity Tacky

Author:Bette Midler

“So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.”

People Stills Names Bits Gay Offensive Aunt Wrists Tacky Redskins

Author:David Plotz

“Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.”

Thinking Courses Forty Diamond Breakfast At Tiffanys Tacky

Author:Holly Golightly

“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.”

Looks Made Doctors Lawyer Executives Tacky

Author:Malvina Reynolds

“Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.”

Littles Made Boxes Tacky

Author:Malvina Reynolds

“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.”

Thinking Want Long Wanted Girl Names Long Time Conscious Twins Tacky

Author:Lisa Origliasso

“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.”

Thinking Wells Shows Cities Married Reputation Corny Tacky

Author:Caroline Dhavernas

“You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.”

Sex Unicorn Tacky Ironclads

Author:J. K. Rowling

“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.”

School Choices White Middle Fashion Ugly Pairs Boots Embarrassed 80s Leather Middle School Tacky

Author:Jordana Brewster

“Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments. Microsoft is the very embodiment of modern high-tech prosperity - it is, in a word, bourgeois - and so it attracts all of the same gripes.”

“I'm usually the sparkle in a closet full of conservative clothes. Either that or my customer has a closet full of my clothes and a few conservative suits from Calvin Klein. I think you've got to give a girl what's missing from her closet. If something jazzy, tacky or sexy is what's missing, I provide it.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Girl Missing Clothes Conservative Sexy Customers Suits Closets Sparkle Tacky

Author:Betsey Johnson

“Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!”

Thinking Men Lasts Influence Fronts He Man Needed Albums Hey Copies Candle Vans Vocal Vinyl Vocalist Tacky Dorky Fleece

Author:Nate Ruess

“Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.”

Talking Tacky Talking About Money

Author:Paula Deen

“Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.”

Boring Dull Tragic Tacky

Author:Thom Filicia

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