London Quotes - Page 13

Would I were in an alehouse in London.

When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film in those days, whether it was Technicolor or Technicolor plus the flatness of the light, or whatever.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

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

London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties and Seventies British films that I grew up on, because I did very much grow up on British films.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.

I love living in London.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

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.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.

I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I was in the wrong place and wanted to leave. I'd thought about going to Australia or New Zealand. It's nothing against England, but I knew I wasn't meant to be there.