London famous quotes

The monster London laugh at me.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Laughing #Monsters #London

We've only recently turned the corner on the Sept. 11 attacks being blamed on Jews and Israelis, as well as almost every other terrorist attack, whether in London, Madrid, Bali or Egypt.
-- Abraham Foxman

#Egypt #London #Madrid

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
-- Alan Parker

#One Day #London #Shoulders

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
-- Alan Rickman

#London #Sometimes #Forget

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

#Party #Long #London

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
-- Alec Waugh

#Cities #House #London

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
-- Alex Ferguson

#London #Members

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.
-- Alex Prager

#New York #Florida #London

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

#New York #Years #London

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#People #Boredom #London

London’s where I was brought up. It’s where my heart is and where I get my inspiration,
-- Alexander McQueen

#Inspiration #Heart #London

I am definitely a west London girl.
-- Amelia Warner

#Girl #London #West

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.
-- Amelia Warner

#Views #Bridges #London

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
-- America Ferrera

#New York #Feelings #London

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
-- Annie Lennox

#Home #Stopping #London

I like where I live here, in London.
-- Annie Lennox

#London

In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.
-- Antal Szerb

#Mind #London #Months

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

#Challenges #Roles #London

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
-- Antony Beevor

#London #Firsts #Excitement

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.
-- Aphra Behn

#Fashion #Women #London

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
-- Arabella Weir

#School #Kids #London

The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
-- Arthur Darvill

#Theatre #Elements #London

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Sacrifice #London #Monogamy

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
-- Arthur Symons

#London #Canvas #Mist

It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Chocolate #Liberty #London

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.
-- Auberon Waugh

#Simple #Typical #London

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

#People #Fans #London

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
-- Bayard Taylor

#Atmosphere #World #London

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Long #Modern Life #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

#Song #Writing #London

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Class #Hierarchy #London

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

#Home #Literature #London

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch

#London #Grim Reaper #Motorbike

The gondola of London [a hansom].
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#London #Gondolas

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Rome #London #Pavement

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.
-- Binyavanga Wainaina

#People #London #Young

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
-- Boris Becker

#Home #Cities #London

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
-- Boris Johnson

#Want #London

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
-- Boris Johnson

#Journey #Want #London

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
-- Boris Johnson

#Want #London #Orlando

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

#House #London #Leisure

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid
-- Bradley Wiggins

#Earth #London #Host

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

#Lying #Secret #London

I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
-- Brian Grazer

#Rose #News #London

I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.
-- Brigitte Nielsen

#Bags #World #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

#Party #Men #London

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
-- Caitlin Thomas

#America #Littles #London

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
-- Camille Pissarro

#Doe #London #Justified

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
-- Carey Mulligan

#Eye #People #London

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
-- Carey Mulligan

#New York #Thinking #London

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Kids #Three #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

#Eric #London #Royal

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

#New York #Practice #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

#Issues #Glowing #London

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
-- Catherine Helen Spence

#London #Return #Range

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Growing Up #Knowing #London

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?
-- Cee Lo Green

#Brain #Pits #London

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

#London #England #Born

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
-- Charles Lamb

#Attachment #Done #London

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.
-- Charlie Cox

#Dream #Theatre #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 wouldnt be.
-- Charlotte Church

#London #Planning #My Family

I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Paris #Special #London

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
-- China Mieville

#Opposites #Cities #London

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
-- China Mieville

#London #Emptiness #Angle

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
-- Christopher Guest

#Children #Growing Up #London

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
-- Claire Forlani

#Missing #London #Spirit

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.
-- Cliff Stearns

#Morning #London #Jitters

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.
-- Clive Anderson

#New York #Home #London

For me, London is and always will be home.
-- Clive Owen

#Home #London

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

#People #Looks #London

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.
-- Colin MacInnes

#Teenage #Epic #London

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
-- Connie Willis

#Writing #London #Imaginary

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.
-- Cynthia Payne

#Mps #London #Lawyer

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
-- Daniel Craig

#London #Moved

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
-- Danny Boyle

#Cities #Growth #London

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
-- Dave Hickey

#Want #London #Not Interested

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

#Cities #Wicked #London

I don't feel very optimistic in London.
-- David Bailey

#Optimistic #London #Feels

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
-- David Bailey

#London #Curious

It got to the point where I sat on the side of the bed in a hotel room in London in early-1990 and said to whoever or whatever: 'If you are there will you please contact or leave me because you are driving me up the wall'.
-- David Icke

#Wall #Bed #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

#Play #London #Students

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

#Monday #England #London

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life
-- Debra Messing

#London #England #Countryside

I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.
-- Delta Burke

#Want #London

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
-- Denise Mina

#London #Grew Up #Feeding

The best thing about London is Paris,
-- Diana Vreeland

#Paris #London

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
-- Diane Abbott

#Looks #Village #London

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.
-- Diego Luna

#Garden #Feelings #London

But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.
-- Dinah Sheridan

#Thinking #Interesting #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

#Prayer #People #London

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.
-- Don Johnson

#London #Enchanting #Planets

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.
-- Donna de Varona

#Men #Games #London

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,
-- Ed Balls

#Government #London #Next

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.
-- Edward Ruscha

#Paris #Romance #London

In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.....
-- Edwin Black

#Teenager #Asking #London

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
-- Elaine Stritch

#Home #Ideas #London

Good.” He straddled her, caging her with his body. “Were it up to me, all of London would know what we do here. -Griffin to Hero.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt

#Hero #Body #London

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#London

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.
-- Elizabeth Peyton

#Dinner #London #Walks

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
-- Elliott Carter

#Zero #Paris #London