London Quotes - Page 18

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

New York has a great energy, but London is better.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

I've found that my humor goes over big in London.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

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

He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

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.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

Nothing falls like London Rain Nothing heals me like you do

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland