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In my experience if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg it's modern architecture.

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Nancy Banks Smith
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
  • 2. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
  • 3. It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear in terms of concept… It's not about age. It's about taste and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people and they're singing my songs! And to me that's crazy.
  • 2. I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
  • 3. First of all plain and simple you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

3 Anger

  • 1. In times of great stress or adversity it's always best to keep busy to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
  • 2. Be modest humble simple. Control your anger.
  • 3. I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested but I went into a diversion programme and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 3. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

5 Architecture

  • 1. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth at it's best.
  • 2. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
  • 3. I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.
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