London Quotes
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Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the ‘London once-over’ – a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.
Rebecca Mader
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I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.
Ryoko Tani -
In London there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.
Scarlett Johansson -
London, dirty little pool of life.
Behramji Malabari -
As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
Michael Mann -
I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.
Mimi Rogers -
And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher sat in front of me watching every mouthful, just as though he hadn’t had an enormous dinner a few minutes before, and the cat, finished with Knobbie’s ears, deftly turned her over and began tidying her stomach, I did feel that my feet were set once more in the path of peace, and that all I had to do was to continue steadily along it.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
Ewan McGregor -
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
Jules Verne -
I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.
Richard O'Brien -
If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.
Michael Winterbottom -
I know how to get around London better than Sydney.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
Surely the colour of London was an exquisite thing. It was like a pearl that late afternoon, something very gentle and pale, with faint blue shadows. And as for its smell, she doubted, indeed, whether heaven itself could smell better, certainly not so interesting. "And anyhow," she said to herself, lifting her head a moment in appreciation, "it can't possibly smell more alive.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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London is a very important financial centre.
Etienne Schneider -
In 1666, following an unfortunate workplace accident, the city of London burnt down.
Ben Aaronovitch -
In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I’d found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
Haruki Murakami -
We were suffering a standard gray London drizzle, the sort that makes it clear that it can keep it up all day if needs be.
Ben Aaronovitch
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The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.
Hayley Atwell -
Audiences in London arrive stressed out of their minds because they can't find anywhere to park, they can't find their tickets, whatever. There is a great joy in being out of London because people are in their seats, waiting for you, waiting to watch the show, not rushing in at the last minute. They are there because they want to see the show and they know how to listen.
Susan Hampshire -
Pincher took me to London, and Knobbie brought me away. It looked as if I were beginning to be led about by dogs.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Life in the London suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.
Stevie Smith