London Quotes
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Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.
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Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
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When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger
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If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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I hope to see London once ere I die.
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Would I were in an alehouse in London.
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London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.
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He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.
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Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.
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What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.
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Long commutes and traffic jams once associated with older, established cities such as London, New York or Tokyo are spreading throughout the world's emerging economies.
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My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
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It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
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This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
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The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.
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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.
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Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.
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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.
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London is a bad habit one hates to lose.
