Quotes About Stereotype

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."

The only thing more suspicious than a black man running is a black man tippy-toeing.

The woman at reception was anywhere between thirty-eight and fifty-eight. Country skin puckering, mouth drooping like she'd been passed over for Bowls Club Treasurer.

little man syndrome

Another interesting fact is people become more intelligent as they age, gaining about one IQ point every ten years. Against the stereotype, it's not all downhill after forty. There is hope for me

Boris laughed, and threw out some fake-looking gang sign. "Suit yourself, yo," he said, in his "gangsta" voice (discernible from his regular voice only by the hand gesture and the "yo") as he got up and roll-walked out. "Nigga gotz to eat.

I doubt if she's ever used a broom in her life," he said sarcastically. "Except to ride on, of course.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

After all, the poor boy's doing the best he can. Probably he grew up in the hill country, and never had no larnin'. I bet they had to throw him on his back to get shoes on him.

Although most people on welfare are not Black, many Americans think they are. The American public associates welfare payments to single mothers with the mythical black welfare queen, who deliberately becomes pregnant in order to increase the amount of her monthly check. The welfare queen represent laziness, chicanery, and economic burden all wrapped up in one powerful image.

I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

Nobody over fifty has got any sense.

Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple

There seems to be a general idea that a clergyman is incapable of behaving like a gentleman. That is not true.

Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

Idealan muž je arheolog jer što je žena starija to ga više zanima.

But murder's a violent crime. Associate it more with a man." -- Evelyn Howard

Quite nice-looking in a kind of way, but rather as though she might have what my mother used to call "a touch of the tar-brush.

Do I understand you to assert that women are not subject to homicidal mania?

When she saw the severed head she fainted dead away. What can I say, she's a woman." "I don't know what it has to do with being a woman," Daiyu responded in a serious tone of voice. "I think anyone might faint at such a ghoulish sight. I mean, if this weren't our job, a few of us might be under a doctor's care right about now." The investigator looked properly chastened,