Splayd Quotes & Sayings

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process. — Rene Auberjonois

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers. — Robert A. Heinlein

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression. — Helen H. Gardener

Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily. — Martin Hopkins

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal ... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?' — Steven Wright

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band. — Gerard Way

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes. — Gore Vidal

All the babies breaking things and grabbing at the cake, and each mama going home thinking about the subtle superiority of her own child to every other child there. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Here's a quick translation: spork = a spoon with added tines; splayd = a knife, fork, and spoon in one, consisting of a tined spoon with a sharpened edge; knork = a fork with the cutting power of a knife; spife = a spoon with a knife on the end (an example would be the plastic green kiwi spoons sold in kitchenware shops); sporf = an all-purpose term for any hybrid of spoon, fork, and knife. — Bee Wilson

The doctrine of morals is an autonomy of practical reason, while the doctrine of virtue is at the same time an autocracy of practical reason. — Immanuel Kant

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe. — Peter Drucker