London Quotes - Page 4

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

I think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international!

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

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.

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

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.

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

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.

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.

My biggest concern is security and keeping Londoners safe.

The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.