Transbanana - Architects in Vienna and Graz. Includes portfolio, brief firm description and contacts.
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Architects It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Architects
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Architects Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Architects
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Architects What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Architects
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Architects "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Architects
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Architects Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Architects
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Architects Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Architects
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Architects A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Architects
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Architects "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architects
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Architects See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Architects
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Architects "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Architects
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Architects In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Architects
