The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
More than 300 languages are spoken in London. Religions are freely practiced. Rich and poor live on the same street, side by… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I didn't believe her… — Catherine Bach Copy Share Image
The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I… — Gina McKee Copy Share Image
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
The first big drive I did I bought an Aston Martin and drove it from London to Scotland and had a fantastic… — Dario Franchitti Copy Share Image
The thought of filming in London was a big draw because I could stay in my house. I read it, and I… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's… — Paula Yates Copy Share Image
Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the… — Gwilym Lee Copy Share Image
When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met… — Henry Howarth Bashford Copy Share Image
I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson,… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Being half-Jamaican, half-Chinese in a very white area, it created a real identity crisis for me as a kid. But I'd travel… — Griff Copy Share Image
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so… — John Amery Copy Share Image
I've been put up in great hotels from a very young age, so I've been spoilt. What I can't stand is when… — Brigitte Nielsen Copy Share Image
I live in Wales but spend quite a lot of time in London - I stay with my brother. When I get… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London.… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in… — Julien Temple Copy Share Image
I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital,… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When he had first arrived, he had found London huge, odd, fundamentally incomprehensible, with only the Tube map, that elegant multicolored topographical… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
