Nancy Banks-Smith 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

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doors

  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• 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

  "Last night's TV" by Nancy Banks-Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.

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• 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

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

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Science, People, Different

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• Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Divertido, Mujeres, Humor

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• 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

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• The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Book, Reading, Matter

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• You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Hands, Forever, Thumbs

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