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Quotes About Stereotype

My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.
~ Peter O'Toole
No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.
~ Jerry Della Femina
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
~ Ben Hecht
With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
~ M. C. Gainey
If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
People have this preconceived notion of me. I'm 'Gob' to them: this thoughtless sociopath who lives this bizarre, ego-driven life. That would be insanity.
~ Will Arnett
If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.
~ Ross Knox
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
~ Roy Blount Jr.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
~ Rudyard Kipling
New points of view are not, as a rule, discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausual Connecting Principle
~ Marc MacYoung
Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.
~ Margaret Atwood
He has tried imagining her as a prostitute—he often plays this private mental game with various women he encounters—but he can't picture any man actually paying for her services. It would be like paying to be run over by a wagon, and would be, like that experience, a distinct threat to the health.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't know if I'm a bottom because it turns me on, or if I'm a bottom because I'm lazy.
~ Margaret Cho
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
~ Herb Caen
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
~ Gerald R. Ford
Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.
~ Donald Glover
Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.
~ Chuck D
Du bist doch eine echte Rabenmutter.
~ Anne Frank
Oh, it's sad, very sad that the old adage has been confirmed for the umpteenth time: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews.
~ Anne Frank
they got to be so conceited because they were Catholics.
~ Anne Lamott
How curious it is that these religious people believe the devil to be so stupid that he should seek to corrupt only the poor and powerless-why not the king of France for once?
~ Anne Rice
Yeah, I can read, he said. Didn't mean to shock you. Maybe you thought I ran around in a little wheel all day?
~ Scott Westerfeld
Doug needs to leave for a very simple reason. He's been branded. Everyone at the company has an expectation of who Doug is and what he can do.
~ Seth Godin
And, if you're a designer, the typeface comic sans is a symbol of bad taste, low status, and laziness.
~ Seth Godin