Nancy Banks-Smith famous quotes

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

#Bad Ass #Doors #Legs

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#Sarcastic #Two #Water

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#People #World #Different

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#Hands #Forever #Thumbs

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#Ideas #Answers #Architecture

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#Bed #Pleasure #Given

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#Reading #Book #Matter

By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#Cute #Stupid #Koalas

Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.