Quotes About Stereotype

The joke is that one Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis is an argument, three Bengalis is a political party

Get this jiggaboo away from me!

The sheer quality of the Christians we met at Oxford shattered our stereotype, and thenceforward a reference in a book or conversation to someone's being a Christian called up an entirely new image.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned."Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...

You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

Say what you will about Mormons, but they are very fine dancers.

Téléclitoridienne means simply "female of the distant clitoris," but it had a lovely, aristocratic ring to it—calling to mind a career woman in heels and sweater set, cabling reports from her home in Biarritz. At the very least, it had a nicer ring to it than "frigid.

She looks at once like someone who could have worked as a runway model and someone who would be mildly put off to hear that.

based on the way they look. If

If you glance at someone and immediately think, "Oh, that person looks like a teacher," or "that person looks like they were in the military," or "that person looks like they are an actor," tell them that.

If, as a professor, you ask four men and two women each to wear a cotton T-shirt, no deodorant and no perfume, for two nights, then hand these T-shirts to you, you will probably be humored as a mite kinky.

Indeed, even if the permanent secretary was fat, hypertensive or a smoker, he was still less likely to suffer a heart attack at a given age than a thin, non-smoking, low-blood-pressure janitor.

What do you expect me to do i am a pirate not a ninja! - Annie, The House of Mystery

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

We're never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we're bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives—although that's what we tell ourselves—but because we're wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger.

I don't think of him as being Black, really….I mean, he's so intelligent.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person…

that archetype is a closed man.

From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in the way of Unitarian legs.