Gimmick Quotations

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'

We're in the Valley League now, so London will see every gimmick defense there is ---- box-and-one, triangle-and-two.

I didn't get arrested to show off my wild character. People say it's a gimmick for all five of us to be different. That's ridiculous.

If the filmmaker has not done the work to grab the viewer with compelling storytelling, then the shock will probably be little more than a passing gimmick or an obscenity.

I thought we moved the ball really well. Our kids have done that all year, they're real unselfish. We don't care who scores. Every team's trying all these little slide games and all these gimmick defenses, and they keep ending up having to pay for it because we've got six guys that can play offense.

It is a real problem and a real drain on teachers, but I've always found that every time I get an upgrade of technology, my workload doesn't get easier. It's kind of a Band-aid, a little gimmick that he's using to sell teachers on this.

We played a lot of gimmick defenses on her the first half, and frustrated her a little. But she's a great player, and she stepped up at the end.

You don't need to spend $79 or more to monitor your credit. It's a gimmick designed to inflate the revenue at the bureaus. It's not going to prevent ID theft. It may give you a little bit of early warning. But it doesn't matter enough for you to pay that amount of money.

We don't want to be a gimmick for you guys, then just go away. We know nobody is going to pick us to beat West Virginia, but that's OK. Hopefully we'll keep giving people something to talk about.

To me, having a good card with a low rate that doesn't zap you with late fees is a better way to go than all of the gimmick cards.

The other guys didn't make shots. When an opponent (plays a gimmick defense), there's a purpose in it. They want the other guys to beat them, and our other guys didn't beat them.

This was the first time we faced a gimmick defense all season. Last season we would see it almost every other game, but I'm proud of the way the girls stepped up and handled it.

There have been no Vince Lombardi speeches, no gimmick stats. We haven't had to motivate them that way, they do it intrinsically, they want to dive on the floor.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

I understand the importance of peace much better than a lot of politicians do who talk about it. With me, peace will be a peace for generations and not a gimmick of the elections.

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

It's just become a budget gimmick on steroids. It just gives them a chance to take those costs off budget.

It was a gimmick in them days. That's why they made her 17 foot tall - so people would take note of her.

Any time you have a super-narrow universe and rationalize other stuff that's out there, it's a sure sign it's a gimmick fund.

I know the Republicans want to have a political gimmick to have on Valentine's day, and that's what this is about, ... It's not too late for us to work together. There's enough things for us to argue about come November, but I would think that the American people would want us to work together.

I don't think that that's really ever been something that this band has been about. We're not really a shock rock band. We're not painting ourselves up weird or having any kind of wacky gimmick to what we do.

And I used it to help me get my foot in the door in Hollywood because the handstand was my gimmick that no one else had.

The kind of political gimmick that this coalition is trying to sell is the reason we did not get meaningful health care reform last year. We are not going to engage in this silliness.