Top 30 Tacky Quotes

I’m not 18 anymore, so I’m not into starting unnecessary beefs. It’s tacky.

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.

I’m a prankster with a Monty Python sense of humor that somehow gets misrepresented in those tacky supermarket publications as bratty, snotty, and rude.

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

When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It’s not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.

I can’t be happy if I want to because the media won’t let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

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.

I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.

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!

Talking about money is garish. It’s tacky.

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.

You’d never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for another thing, it’s just like a tacky drag queen.

I’m not a tacky person, I think.

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

It wasn’t until I was working on ‘Tacky’ that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.

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.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

Authors use ‘almost’ to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome – some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct – in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

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.

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.

I grew up thinking my father was tacky. There was no color coordination. It was whatever was cool. ‘These sweatpants are cool. I’ll wear them with these shoes that are cool.’ He had less inhibitions. I wasn’t respectful of his swag then.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

I hate to say it – it breaks my heart – but we’re a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

Comfort is always a priority, but that doesn’t mean, just for the sake of comfort, I will wear some silly stuff and make myself look tacky.

I have been known to, on more than one occasion, look down my nose at items I deem to be tacky wedding fare… carnations, tulle, DIY invitations. And yet, the wedding I’m most embarrassed of having planned, the one I’d never put into my portfolio, is my own.

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you’re going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it’s tacky.

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists – ‘goff’ with a double f – always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn’t what we were about at all.

Even though L.A. can be kind of tacky, when a city’s big draws are The Roxy and the Viper Room, you know its pretty amazing.