London Quotes · Page 40

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it…

— Martin Scorsese

I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not…

— Diane Kruger

I ain't flash. I'm just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London.

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

The four places I've called home in my life have been Lahore, London, New York and California. And I have a very…

— Mohsin Hamid

If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making…

— Boris Johnson

London was like that too. It was that time of year when all the rich kids with the oil money have their…

— Bill Burr

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school.…

— Prunella Scales

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could…

— Eric Whitacre

I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as…

— Jackie Collins

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

— Cliff Stearns

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the…

— Asafa Powell

When you travel across London, it can take two hours to get from one end of London to the other, when it…

— Tom Hopper

I remember after a year in London, I was at an MTV party and a friend saying to me that it was…

— Laura Whitmore

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go…

— Ronald Biggs

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to…

— Damien Hirst

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

— Iain Glen

All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure…

— Peter Hitchens

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

— Keira Knightley

Chelsea gave me all the trophies I have as a football player. I saw my kids growing up in London.

— Fernando Torres

I spend a lot of time in London and I miss California. Of course, when I'm in California I miss London.

— Hope Sandoval

Many anglophone Africans still have deep emotional, economic and often familial links to Britain, but those with money are now as keen…

— David Olusoga

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've…

— Andy Serkis

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

— Anonymous

I got recruited to join a research team at SCL group which, at the time, was a British military contractor based in…

— Christopher Wylie