What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
When I was a small child in London in the early 1960s, I had whooping cough. Then, when I was ten, I… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle when I was younger was geographical. I was living in Blackburn and the ITV and BBC studios were in… — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll… — Karen Gillan Copy Share Image
I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Bernard [Leach] had acquired many [Shoji] Hamada works. Some of them, it was interesting - first of all, Hamada worked in St.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I fifteen or sixteen and was in London, moving from a small town and now going to a big city, I… — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Living with a facial disfigurement, in a busy city like London, means I am rarely invisible. Even something as simple as a… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books."… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress… — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image