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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The bomb lives only as it is falling.
IAIN M. BANKS
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top...
NANCY GIBBS
When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high...
NANCY PELOSI
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacen...
NANCY PEARCEY
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev...
NANCY FRIDAY
All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on m...
NANCY GRACE
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying a...
NANCY PELOSI
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They a...
NANCY KRESS
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
NANCY WILLARD
In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches...
NANCY WILLARD
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the qu...
NANCY WILLARD
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Ma...
NANCY WERLIN
You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon,...
NANCY WERLIN
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is ...
NANCY WERLIN
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag...
NANCY WERLIN
There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback ...
NANCY WERLIN
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's te...
NANCY WERLIN
No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book ...
NANCY WERLIN
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
NANCY WERLIN
I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
NANCY WAKE
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men...
NANCY WAKE
I adored my father.
NANCY WAKE
I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t...
NANCY TRAVIS
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with...
NANCY TRAVIS
The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are n...
NANCY TRAVIS
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing thin...
NANCY TRAVIS
I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
NANCY TRAVIS
I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
NANCY TRAVIS
'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g...
NANCY TRAVIS
I love zoo sanctuaries.
NANCY TRAVIS
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
NANCY THAYER
The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serend...
NANCY THAYER
Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll b...
NANCY SINATRA
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
NANCY SINATRA
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked a...
NANCY SINATRA
I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
NANCY SINATRA
I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
NANCY SINATRA
I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio...
NANCY SINATRA
I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family too...
NANCY SINATRA
His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the ...
NANCY SINATRA
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
NANCY SINATRA
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip...
NANCY SINATRA