Olivia Colman

I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.

English Actress

Joanna Lumley

In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

Mal Peet

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

English Author

Kate Adie

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

British Journalist

John Waters

I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in the airplane in the lavatory to take out the smoke detector. I would've been those people they warn you against.

Director

Haile Gebrselassie

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

Athlete

Nancy Banks Smith

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

Keith Allen

The Internet is a global lavatory wall, a Rabelaisian mixture of truth, lies, insanity and humour.

Welsh Actor

A. C. Benson

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

British Author

Tom Baker

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Actor

Used for public or shared toilets, 'lavatory' indicates a place of privacy and hygiene.

Public Etiquette

'Lavatory' is common in air travel to refer to the toilet compartment in an aircraft.

Air Travel

In formal or polite contexts, 'lavatory' is preferred over 'toilet', which can be considered blunt.

Formal Preference

Lavatory can refer to the fixture, meaning the sink itself, in any washroom.

Washroom Fixture

In a home, 'lavatory' often means the sink, especially in bathroom descriptions.

Domestic Setting

The term may be used to describe the material of the basin, e.g., marble, granite.

Material Specificity

 welcome to Ramallah the ROI some mechanisms lavatory at Virginia Tech this robot is a ameba robot now we don't have enough time to go into technical details I'll just show you some of the experiments so this is all over the early feasibility experience we store potential energy to the elastic skin to

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 The German camp guards, they've got bored. They've taken to just firing into the prison camp at random for fun. On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners. He said he heard suspicious laughter.

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 fishnets without laddering them I learned how to dodge bullets and I learned how to look nonchalant after flushing a quantity of cocaine down a public lavatory but one of the most important things that I learned was how

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