Quotes About Stereotype

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

That's what the welfare people want,' Tranquilino gritted his teeth, 'to have us on welfare and to have our women working. Then they can point to our broken families and say the mexicano is a lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch!

O it's Tommy this, an'Tommy that, an' Tommy, go away: But it's Thank you, Mister Adkins, when the band begins to play...

And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.

What's good about Americans, if I can generalize a little, is that they have a kind of open-hearted innocence. And what's not so good is that they can't imagine any world outside the States, or any value system different than their own.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word. [ 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times , December 12, 1991)]

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

The flamboyant diva in eye-catching costume was Queenie in drag. We have never been able to persuade him to undergo a transsex transformation. He says he prefers remaining a faggot.

She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse.

Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?

God all white too, looking like some stout white man work at the bank.

They were assumed, like women and cats, to have no souls.

It's the rich what gets the pleasure, it's the poor what gets the blame.' I

Tie an Italian's hands behind his back and he'll be speechless.

The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you. He'd done some tough jobs to earn a crust for him

Why do big mouths and little brains so often go together?

All it took to turn a CD into a knife or a tape gun into a .45 was a little imagination, a little panic, and a lot of prejudice.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom. Check it out: I'm twenty years old, and I'm one of the top five SS-Scrabble players in the whole state. I guess that might say more about Iowa than it says about me.

All those tattoos. A woman could get any tattoo she liked, but they all said the same thing. They were a sign reading AVAILABLE FOR RENT.