London Quotes · Page 60

If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.

— Rupert Murdoch

You have to understand, that's all I've ever wanted: for London to have a credible musical voice. I will honestly, honestly die…

— Skepta

I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds,…

— Helene Hanff

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

— Victoria Wood

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

— Jane Seymour

My mother Naseem Bano who was called the first 'Pari Chehra' or beauty queen of the film industry, had taken me to…

— Saira Banu

I think we were in London for TV and David Hasselhoff was guest host of 'Raw'. We had the match where we…

— Gail Kim

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life.…

— Kristin Chenoweth

London, how could one ever be tired of it?

— Margaret Drabble

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of…

— Evan Davis

The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's…

— Zachary Cole Smith

The other night I went out to have dinner in a London pub and the barmaid had this whole conversation saying, 'You…

— Robert Pattinson

The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by…

— Mike Harding

I know that I want to do my one-man show eventually, and that would talk about my life and about how football…

— Eddie George

We moved to London from the Rhondda Valley when I was four.

— Paul Whitehouse

I was in London for 13 years and I think I only found one good chip shop.

— Danny Rose

As soon as that was kind of green-lit, it became very obvious to me what I wanted to do and it was…

— Alexa Chung

No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in…

— Samuel Johnson

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan…

— Mark Haddon

It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love…

— Arthur Smith

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not…

— Douglas Booth

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

— Mohamed Al-Fayed

You can be in Shanghai on a Thursday, London on Friday, and in bed at home by Friday night.

— Julie Sweet

To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.

— Joe Bonamassa

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to…

— Theresa May

In London, there is no need for 25 high-end gastronomic restaurants. That would be too much.

— Alain Ducasse

The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj:…

— Andrew Neil

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty…

— George Bernard Shaw

At 21 I was all over the place, I had no direction, I left London because I was getting into loads of…

— Jay Blades

I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for…

— Kofi Annan

“While in England write or get wrought rotten rusted.”

— Aporva Kala

We want artists to stay in London. It's very important culturally and economically, but there are lots of challenges in terms of…

— Munira Mirza

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I…

— Susannah York

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class…

— Edward Hirsch

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney,…

— Guy Kawasaki

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the…

— Anthony Trollope

We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car…

— David Lammy

I always love a song about London or about places. I think Britain could do with more of them; America is so…

— Viv Albertine

“But Tom was no believer in fairy tales and miracles. He could walk through a bluebell wood and not see a single…

— Joanne Harris