Best 684 quotes in «london quotes» category

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in 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.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

London is a modern Babylon.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted.

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

London is a roost for every bird.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.

Nothing falls like London Rain Nothing heals me like you do

Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to... to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.