Quotes About Stereotype

You couldn't find a Jewish sheik?

Emma. He smiled in the darkness, thinking what a fool he'd made of himself. Because of Chloe, he'd assumed he was in a whorehouse, and he'd taken Emma for a fresh young flower in the madam's bouquet. Instead she was a librarian, and there was every likelihood that no man had ever laid a hand on her. Steven

I'm from Georgia, honey. We consider all women dangerous; it's part of their charm.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Abnormal – nonsense. Suggests a norm, which is a tag placed on those who don't conform to an elite's view of itself.

Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

Le galbe évasé de ses hanches: had one ever read a French novel in which that phrase didn't occur?

The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.

People say: a donkey is stupid. When a man is told that he is not very intelligent, stubborn and lazy he is politely called an ass.

Closing in on three hundred pounds, the woman with her in lockup looked like a Sumo wrestler squeezed into a bright, lime-green spandex outfit. She might have been a jogger, but her garish makeup suggested otherwise.

But don't get me wrong...driving a truck doesn't make me a redneck. I don't have a gun rack in it. I have a wine rack.

We French people sometimes appear rude but are not really intending to be rude. It is because…" He shrugged. "Perhaps it's something to do with our language. French may sound a bit arrogant sometimes. As if it's God talking, perhaps. You know how God talks. French suits him very well, I think." Annabelle laughed. "The English used to say that God spoke English. But we knew he spoke French all along.

Of course," said Mma Ramotswe. "It is very important for a matron to be traditionally built. It adds authority.

Back in his seat, he said, -Did I tell you not to stay in the sun?- He narrowed his eyes. -You are black as a negra.-