Quotes and Sayings about London
"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Agreement, Rights, London)
"When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Business, Defeat, End, London)
"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Being, London, Play)
"It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests."
- John Amery
(Related: Thought, People, Acting, England, London, Russia)
"I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Life, Day, London, Nothing, Will, Writing)
"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."
- Cecil Beaton
(Related: London, Result)
"I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Home, London, World)
"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Business, Travel, London)
"At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London."
- Gerry Beckley
(Related: Time, Thought, London)
"In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being."
- Steven Berkoff
(Related: London, State)
"On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me."
- Henry Bessemer
(Related: London, March, World)
"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: People, Care, London)
"I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off."
- Ronald Biggs
(Related: Art, Day, End, London, School)
"When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore."
- Bjork
(Related: Thought, People, Abuse, London)
"The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London."
- James W. Black
(Related: Opportunity, Chance, College, Independence, London, Research)
"I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Love, Lies, London, Secrets, Theater)
"Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira."
- William Bligh
(Related: Quality, London, Wine)
"I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Autumn, England, London, Spring, Summer)
"I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: London, Theater, Years)
"When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!"
- David Blunkett
(Related: Being, London)
"The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Actions, England, London, Spain, World)
"You know, I have guys that are almost stalkers... it is very strange. I had this one guy that e-mailed me off my site, and thought we were boyfriend and girlfriend. He then came to my house in London, I do not know how he found it."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Thought, Boyfriend, Girlfriend, London)
"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: People, London, Sense, Struggle, Want)
"I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain."
- Sarah Brightman
(Related: Home, Mother, London, Now, Right, Spain)
"I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting."
- Pierce Brosnan
(Related: Time, Fighting, Irish, London)
"Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album."
- Dennis Brown
(Related: Music, People, Day, London)
"I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Being, London, Now, Want)
"I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Living, London, Want)
"An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it."
- George Carey
(Related: London, Office, Tea)
"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Hollywood, London, Paris, Theater)
"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: London, Paris)
"We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months."
- Lacey Chabert
(Related: London, Months, Space)
"London is the clearing-house of the world."
- Joseph Chamberlain
(Related: London, World)
"One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Financial, London, Paris)
"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Light, London)
"They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be."
- Charlotte Church
(Related: Family, London, Planning)
"If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq."
- Kenneth Clarke
(Related: Policy, Bombs, Connection, Iraq, London)
"However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system."
- Kenneth Clarke
(Related: Legal, Bombs, Laws, London, Result)
"If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Time, London)
"There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city."
- Sebastian Coe
(Related: London, May, Problems, Will)
"The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London."
- Sebastian Coe
(Related: Dreams, Athletes, Games, London, Will)
"The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail."
- Phil Collins
(Related: Day, Detail, London, Project)
"I'd never have written the big books in London."
- Jilly Cooper
(Related: Books, London)
"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Fancy, Listening, London, Open, Summer, Thrushes)
"I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: American, English, Irish, London, Now, Pretty)
"You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: History, People, London)
"Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: Music, London, Pride)
"When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: First, London, Pretty)
"Gentlemen never wear brown in London."
- Lord Curzon
(Related: Gentlemen, London)
"My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Gay, London)
"One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor."
- Ted Danson
(Related: Kiss, Actor, Being, Bizarre, Houston, London)
"On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb."
- Siobhan Davies
(Related: Dance, Ideas, Acceptance, London)
"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me."
- Julie Delpy
(Related: Love, Living, London, Paris)
"I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: London)
"London is a roost for every bird."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: London)
"London is a modern Babylon."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: London)
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: London, Present, Sin)
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: London)
"London, thou art the flower of cities all!"
- William Dunbar
(Related: Art, Cities, London)
"I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life."
- John Dyer
(Related: Experience, Life, London, Years)
"I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater."
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: Music, Work, Actor, London, School, Study, Theater, Theatre, Youth)
"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful."
- Sherilyn Fenn
(Related: Time, Being, London, Years)
"In London they don't like you if you're still alive."
- Harvey Fierstein
(Related: London)
"I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time."
- Albert Finney
(Related: Time, London, Party, Waste)
"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis."
- Albert Finney
(Related: Film, London, Tennis)
"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."
- Colin Firth
(Related: People, London)
"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."
- Colin Firth
(Related: England, Intentions, Living, London, Reason)
"I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments."
- Colin Firth
(Related: People, Arguments, London)
"Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place."
- Claire Forlani
(Related: London, Spirit)
"There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Business, Wealth, Gardens, London)
"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"
- David Friedman
(Related: London)
"My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town."
- Sadie Frost
(Related: London, Parents)
"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: London)
"We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did."
- John Gallagher
(Related: Experience, London, Want)
"When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds."
- Haile Gebrselassie
(Related: London, Race, Will, World)
"What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me."
- Haile Gebrselassie
(Related: Work, Hope, London)
"This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts."
- Haile Gebrselassie
(Related: History, Challenge, London, Will)
"When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London."
- Boy George
(Related: Time, Culture, Leisure, London)
"I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth."
- Kathie Lee Gifford
(Related: London)
"I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes."
- Trisha Goddard
(Related: London)
"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."
- Fay Godwin
(Related: Mother, Father, American, Artist, Children, Germany, London, Photography, Schools, Training, World)
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London."
- Alberto Gonzales
(Related: People, Expertise, Investigation, London)
"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."
- Norman Granz
(Related: London, Play, Today, Years)
"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police."
- Tony Greig
(Related: England, London, Police)
"In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: Commitment, Democracy, Fighting, Freedom, Justice, London)
"Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: People, Thoughts, Americans, London, Terror)
"After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously."
- Dan Hawkins
(Related: Music, London, School)
"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."
- Damien Hirst
(Related: People, Country, London, Weekend)
"The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce."
- Tobe Hooper
(Related: Living, London, Production)
"Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'"
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Mother, English, Friends, London, Play, Reading, Reason, Speech, Theater)
"I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Funny, Audiences, Ending, Fact, Film, Laughter, London, Speech)
"I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them."
- Henry Hudson
(Related: Diligence, Force, London, Now, Persuasion)
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(Related: London)
"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist."
- C. L. R. James
(Related: London, Man, Months, Party)
"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."
- Don Johnson
(Related: London)
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Money, Americans, Fact, London, Paris, Popular)
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Despair, London, Man, Paris, Sadness, Ugly)
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Beauty, Thought, Earth, London, Paris)
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Life, London, Man)
"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Life, London, World)
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Life, London, Man)
"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
- Charles Keating
(Related: England, London)
"Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity."
- James Keller
(Related: Adversity, Impatience, London, Sentiment, Spirits, Years)
"The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Family, Time, Daughter, Film, First, London)
"I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me."
- Carole King
(Related: Time, Work, London)
"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."
- Ben Kingsley
(Related: London, Songs)
"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."
- Ben Kingsley
(Related: Religion, Class, London)
"A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Bible, Gentleman, London, May)
"We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so."
- Mark Knopfler
(Related: London, Play, Theater)
"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul."
- Jerzy Kosinski
(Related: Soul, Clouds, Light, London, Rain, Weather)
"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: London, Night)
"I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician."
- Angela Lansbury
(Related: Mother, Talent, London)
"I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents."
- Jude Law
(Related: Childhood, Class, London, Middle class)
"London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to."
- Jude Law
(Related: Home, London, Right, Wrong)
"Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: English, Favorite, London)
"I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not."
- Penelope Lively
(Related: Change, Society, London)
"I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability."
- Kenneth Robert Livingstone
(Related: Ability, London, Office, Will)
"I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999."
- Kenneth Robert Livingstone
(Related: Act, Authority, Exercise, Guidance, London, Office, Respect, State, Will)
"My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London."
- Kenneth Robert Livingstone
(Related: London, Will)
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
- Jack London
(Related: Life, Cards, Poor)
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
- Jack London
(Related: Life, Ecstasy, Forgetfulness, Living, Paradox)
"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class."
- Jack London
(Related: God, Mother, Class)
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London
(Related: Time, Man, Trying, Waste)
"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself."
- Jack London
(Related: Nature)
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
(Related: Inspiration)
"If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash."
- Jack London
(Related: Fame)
"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."
- Jack London
(Related: Beauty, Purpose, Now, Reason)
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
- Jack London
"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
- Jack London
"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"
- Jack London
"Affluence means influence."
- Jack London
(Related: Influence)
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
- Jack London
(Related: Charity)
"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."
- Jack London
(Related: Memories, Nothing)
"Did you know that today will never be tomorrow."
- Jay London
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Will)
"I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights."
- Jay London
(Related: Hair)
"I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm."
- Jay London
(Related: Weather)
"I model irregular clothing."
- Jay London
"I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me."
- Jay London
(Related: Identity, Theft, Worry)
"Does anybody know what I'm doing up here?"
- Jay London
"Do you know it was a year a ago today?"
- Jay London
(Related: Today)
"After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride."
- Jay London
(Related: Cause, Pride, Privilege, Years)
"I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world."
- Jay London
(Related: End, World, Worry)
"At Motel 6 in Amish Country I wonder if they leave the light on for you?"
- Jay London
(Related: Country, Light, Wonder)
"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it."
- Jay London
(Related: Military, Training)
"You know what burns me? Matches."
- Jay London
"They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults."
- Jay London
(Related: Thought)
"People read me but they don't subscribe."
- Jay London
(Related: People)
"My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese."
- Jay London
(Related: Family)
"My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings."
- Jay London
(Related: Girlfriend)
"My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality."
- Jay London
(Related: Girlfriend, Personality)
"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings."
- Jay London
(Related: Father)
"My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless."
- Jay London
(Related: Boss)
"I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else."
- Jay London
"I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness."
- Jay London
(Related: Performance, Cause, Drugs, May)
"I saw a stationery store move."
- Jay London
"I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger."
- Jay London
(Related: Home, Manager, Lady)
"I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?"
- Jay London
"I went to a urologist - he told me I could go at any time."
- Jay London
(Related: Time)
"I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling."
- Jay London
"I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road."
- Jay London
(Related: Driving, Lonely, Road)
"I was born nine months premature."
- Jay London
(Related: Months)
"I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out."
- Jay London
(Related: Music, Father)
"I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough."
- Jay London
(Related: Army)
"I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out."
- Jay London
(Related: Hair, Loss)
"It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes."
- Jay London
"I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody."
- Jay London
"A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked."
- Jay London
(Related: Information, Job, Questions)
"A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock."
- Jay London
(Related: Opportunity)
"I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Love, Sports, Extreme)
"I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Experience, Character)
"I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Life, Parents, Rest, Want)
"I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself."
- Jeremy London
"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Vanity)
"I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Act)
"A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Life, People)
"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
- Jeremy London
(Related: College, School)
"I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Love, Romantic)
"I can't deal with high maintenance chicks."
- Jeremy London
"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Brother, Attention, Growing up)
"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Schools)
"And my little sister died when she was 16."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Sister)
"I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Being, End)
"It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!"
- Jeremy London
(Related: Time, Thought, Now)
"You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Act, Living)
"What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball."
- Jeremy London
(Related: American, Baseball, Cricket)
"They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Winning)
"Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Music, Acting, Now, Right, Waiting)
"My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Brother, Guitar, Play)
"I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Cricket, World)
"Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Family)
"I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Talk)
"If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy."
- Jeremy London
(Related: London, World)
"If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Respect)
"I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Idea, Being, Famous)
"I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Car, Dad, Golf, Race)
"I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls."
- Jeremy London
(Related: America, Friends, Girls)
"I avoid crazy women."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Women)
"Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Actors, Friends)
"I can't stand girls who laugh at everything I say like I'm the funniest guy in the world. I like girls who tell it like it is, no kissing up to me because I'm on TV."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Girls, Kissing, World)
"Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club."
- Julie London
(Related: Work)
"I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much."
- Julie London
"I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along."
- Julie London
"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."
- Julie London
(Related: Taste)
"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."
- Julie London
(Related: Marriage, Order)
"I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal."
- Julie London
(Related: First, Provocative)
"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
- Julie London
(Related: Business, Months, Project)
"I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak."
- Julie London
(Related: Business, Career, Years)
"I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style."
- Julie London
(Related: Project, Style, Voice, Wrong)
"If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore."
- Julie London
"Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer."
- Julie London
(Related: Faith, Ability)
"Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me."
- Julie London
(Related: People)
"I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice."
- Julie London
(Related: Voice, Wrong)
"If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it."
- Julie London
(Related: Acting)
"In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you."
- Julie London
(Related: Business)
"We've performed in South America and in Japan."
- Julie London
(Related: America)
"The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them."
- Julie London
(Related: People, Appearance, Choice, President)
"The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer."
- Julie London
(Related: Acting, First)
"Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality."
- Julie London
(Related: Personality)
"It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often."
- Julie London
"Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career."
- LaToya London
(Related: Hope, Career, Worry)
"I want to get into movies, not just TV series."
- LaToya London
(Related: Movies, Want)
"I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled."
- LaToya London
(Related: People)
"Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me."
- LaToya London
(Related: Family, American, Being, Competition, Focus, Respect)
"Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me."
- LaToya London
(Related: Personality, Pressure)
"Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us."
- LaToya London
(Related: Focus, Now, Options, Right, Will)
"Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about."
- LaToya London
(Related: Work, Nothing, Worry)
"People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time."
- LaToya London
(Related: Time, People, America, Chance, Want)
"Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed."
- LaToya London
(Related: Time, Fun, Quiet)
"Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will."
- LaToya London
(Related: Help, Will)
"Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me."
- LaToya London
(Related: Thought)
"It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments."
- LaToya London
(Related: Funny, People, Moments, Past, Years)
"I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles."
- LaToya London
(Related: Listening, Race, Want)
"I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture."
- LaToya London
(Related: Love, Play)
"I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing."
- LaToya London
(Related: Love, Music, First, Houston, Singing)
"We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do."
- LaToya London
(Related: People, Focus, Now, Right, Will)
"People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about."
- LaToya London
(Related: Love, People, Emotions)
"I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all."
- LaToya London
(Related: Style, Vote)
"I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us."
- LaToya London
(Related: American, Career)
"I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future."
- LaToya London
(Related: Career, End, Future, Want, Will)
"First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition."
- LaToya London
(Related: People, Competition, First)
"Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well."
- LaToya London
(Related: Careers, Past, Years)
"Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized."
- LaToya London
(Related: Career, Publicity)
"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."
- LaToya London
(Related: Order)
"They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary."
- Meyer London
(Related: Talk)
"The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London."
- Kyle MacLachlan
(Related: Coffee, London)
"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames."
- Archibald MacLeish
(Related: Houses, London)
"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."
- Robert Mapplethorpe
(Related: Men, Thought, People, Gay, London)
"Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Home, Fight, London)
"I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion."
- Eddie Marsan
(Related: Movies, Actor, Actors, End, Fashion, Stars)
"I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining."
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Hate, London, Weather)
"We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester."
- Dave Mason
(Related: England, London, Talk)
"For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting."
- Jessie Matthews
(Related: Time, Dance, London, Numbers, Play)
"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
- Henry Mayhew
(Related: London)
"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
- Henry Mayhew
(Related: London, Space)
"When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Isolation, London, Wood)
"We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Work, Idea, Living, London, Sisters, Weekend, Will)
"From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London."
- Ewan McGregor
(Related: Acting, Drama, London, School, Theatre, Years)
"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town."
- Ewan McGregor
(Related: London)
"Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that."
- Sam Mendes
(Related: Home, Living, London, Now, Running, Theater, Want)
"I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life."
- Debra Messing
(Related: Life, Love, Time, England, London)
"In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared."
- John Mica
(Related: London, March, Nation, states, United)
"When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."
- Bette Midler
(Related: London)
"America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: Financial, America, London, Nation, Paris, Rome)
"The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle."
- Kylie Minogue
(Related: London, Sun, Treasure)
"I crammed my exams in London and did fine."
- Rhona Mitra
(Related: London)
"I was born in London, so going there is always a treat."
- Roger Moore
(Related: London)
"All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: Money, London)
"The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: Church, Building, Difference, London, Style)
"You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: Boys, Feet, London, Running)
"In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: London, Now)
"I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare."
- Kate Moss
(Related: Day, End, First, London, Want)
"I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working."
- Kate Moss
(Related: Jobs, London)
"Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score."
- Mark Mothersbaugh
(Related: Music, Film, London, Now, Right, Writing)
"At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London."
- Jamie Muir
(Related: Art, College, London, Musicians, Play)
"I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all."
- Samantha Mumba
(Related: Time, Home, People, London, Now, Space)
"In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!"
- Parminder Nagra
(Related: Football, Girls, London)
"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
- V. S. Naipaul
(Related: London, World)
"In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect."
- James Nasmyth
(Related: Time, Brothers, Effect, London, Machines, Printing)
"I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career."
- David Naughton
(Related: Art, Music, Career, London)
"As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day."
- David Naughton
(Related: Day, London)
"It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down."
- Harry Nilsson
(Related: Time, London)
"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"
- Robert De Niro
(Related: London, Now, Paris, Rome, World)
"The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London."
- Jeremy Northam
(Related: Funny, Gardening, Cooking, Light, London, Space)
"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time."
- Trevor Nunn
(Related: Home, Time, Company, London, Shakespeare)
"I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London."
- Richard O'Brien
(Related: Drama, London, School, Theatre)
"Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes."
- Maureen O'Hara
(Related: Audiences, Eyes, London)
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
- Ben Okri
(Related: Home, Literature, London, Shakespeare)
"During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful."
- George Andrew Olah
(Related: Time, Work, First, Literature, London)
"So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling."
- Gary Oldman
(Related: Age, Kids, London, Right)
"When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten."
- Julia Ormond
(Related: Drama, London, School, Years)
"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."
- John Osborne
(Related: Love, London, Scandal, Tea)
"When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good."
- Robert Pattinson
(Related: Flying, London, Rome, Tears)
"Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity."
- Tom Paulin
(Related: Fact, London, Sense, Solidarity)
"Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London."
- Cynthia Payne
(Related: Lawyers, London)
"The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat."
- Mike Pence
(Related: London, Present)
"I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Health, Life, War, EnglFirst, London, Months, Years)
"There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific."
- Trevor Phillips
(Related: Ambition, Day, Interest, London, Want)
"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
- Harold Pinter
(Related: War, London, World, World war)
"I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there."
- Katie Price
(Related: People, Hate, London, Now, Respect)
"Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges."
- Ernie Pyle
(Related: Peace, London, Night, Want, World)
"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
- Ernie Pyle
(Related: Fire, London, Night)
"On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy."
- Carroll Quigley
(Related: Power, Life, Policy, Financial, Foreign policy, London, Practice, Press, University)
"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Earth, London)
"The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes."
- Kathleen Quinlan
(Related: London, Weather, Winter)
"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role."
- Anthony Quinn
(Related: Thought, Being, London)
"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."
- Mick Ralphs
(Related: London, Right)
"It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team."
- Claudio Reyna
(Related: Travel, Country, EnglFans, London, Play, Support)
"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"
- Ryan Reynolds
(Related: London, Months)
"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage."
- Mordecai Richler
(Related: Books, Country, London, Winter)
"I've always wanted to perform on the London stage."
- Mimi Rogers
(Related: London)
"The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school."
- Mimi Rogers
(Related: Kids, London, Past, School, Want)
"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992."
- J. Philippe Rushton
(Related: London, University)
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
- Walter Salles
(Related: London)
"The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important."
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
(Related: People, Character, London)
"On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security."
- Otto Schily
(Related: London, Nonsense, Security)
"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London."
- Peter Shaffer
(Related: Adolescence, Childhood, London)
"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."
- Peter Shaffer
(Related: London, Oil, Painting)
"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Heart, Complaint, Income, London, Man)
"I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947."
- George Shearing
(Related: Home, America, First, Holiday, London)
"I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it."
- Teddy Sheringham
(Related: Love, People, London)
"Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost."
- Teddy Sheringham
(Related: Time, First, London, Years)
"An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling."
- Donald Sinden
(Related: Business, Actor, London, Sound)
"There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage."
- Christian Slater
(Related: Soul, Actor, End, London, Theatre, Tradition)
"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: Life, Poetry, Thought, London, Old)
"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: People, Attitude, Americans, Contempt, London, Understanding, Yuppies)
"I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here."
- Mel Smith
(Related: Movies, Credit, London)
"In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done."
- Mel Smith
(Related: Film, London)
"My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Society, London)
"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Climate, First, London, Principles, Sound)
"I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?"
- Imelda Staunton
(Related: London, Theatre, Years)
"Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: London)
"The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles."
- Henry Sweet
(Related: London)
"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."
- Jonathan Swift
(Related: Mistake, Coffee, Echo, Folly, London, Voice)
"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."
- Neil Tennant
(Related: Manager, Daughter, Gay, Job, London)
"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime."
- Neil Tennant
(Related: Life, Army, Crime, First, London, Soldiers, Song)
"And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed."
- David Thewlis
(Related: England, London, Will)
"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."
- Virgil Thomson
(Related: London, Paris, Wit)
"We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London."
- Michael Todd
(Related: Home, Being, London, Violence)
"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Economy, Revolution, London, Saying)
"They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day."
- Johnny Vegas
(Related: Day, Living, London, Windows)
"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
- Johnny Vegas
(Related: Idea, London)
"I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period."
- Rick Wakeman
(Related: Books, Court, Fact, London, Old, Project)
"It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in."
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
(Related: Time, London, Theatre)
"I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better."
- Rachel Weisz
(Related: Change, Love, Time, Food, London)
"I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics."
- Rachel Weisz
(Related: London)
"I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador."
- Felix de Weldon
(Related: EnglFirst, London)
"There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society."
- Irvine Welsh
(Related: Society, Celebrity, Literature, London, Now)
"There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else."
- Timothy West
(Related: War, London, Play, Theatre)
"The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Love, London, Shops, Want)
"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
- Patrick White
(Related: English, Holidays, London, School, Visit, Years)
"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved."
- Patrick White
(Related: London, School, University)
"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: London, Man, World)
"I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it."
- Montel Williams
(Related: Travel, Denmark, Europe, London, Nation, Race)
"After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Change, Living, London, Production, Years)
"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."
- Jeanette Winterson
(Related: People, London)
"Of course I've done musicals here in London."
- Norman Wisdom
(Related: London)
"I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night."
- Norman Wisdom
(Related: Home, London, Night, School, Scotland)
"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: London, Melancholy)
"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"
- Susannah York
(Related: Garden, London, Road, Want)
"People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan."
- Toby Young
(Related: People, London, World)
"When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back."
- Sarah Zettel
(Related: College, London, Summer, Tea)