London Quotes

"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, Photographer

"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, Model

"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, Musician

"I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here"

Mel Smith, Actor

"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, Actress

"The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles"

Henry Sweet, Writer

"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, Politician

"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, Musician

"I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career"

David Naughton, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Musician

"I crammed my exams in London and did fine"

Rhona Mitra, Actress

"Gentlemen never wear brown in London"

Lord Curzon, Statesman

"London is the clearing-house of the world"

Joseph Chamberlain, Politician

"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, Musician

"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, Businessman

"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise"

Virgil Thomson, Composer

"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, Politician

"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, Actress

"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, Novelist

"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, Politician

"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare"

Ben Okri, Poet

"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"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, Politician

"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, Poet

"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, Novelist

"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, Author

"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, Politician

"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, Actress

"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, Musician

"While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"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

"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, Novelist

"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"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, Author

"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

"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"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, Actor

"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, Actress

"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, Musician

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