English Stereotype Sayings

#1. I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

Langston Hughes

#2. Posthumous pardons, however, do not resurrect the innocent.

Allan Nicol

#3. In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody's pretty much standing around like they're at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.

Tracy Morgan

#4. Alone on the summit of Mount Everest.

Jacqueline Susann

#5. Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

Richard Allen

#6. There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite self patience.

Chad Harbach

#7. I've been playing the drums since age nine.

Bill Berry

#8. Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Privacy is a fundamental human need

Bruce Schneier