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 Copy Share Image
I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!” “You did!” she retorted.… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between… — Michael Winterbottom 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
When you act, you take on the attitudes and the emotions of others. There has to be a release. Most often done… — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I use maps in my phone a great deal because I can't tell left from right. Having easy access to maps has… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing… — Jason Flemyng Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Dad was the generation that fought in both world wars, and people married rather later when they had been in the trenches.… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures… — Charles Landry 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
We have a Mercedes Viano, which is a sort of posh people carrier. I told my wife I bought it for the… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us -… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by… — Lynda Bellingham Copy Share Image
If nobody is clear on what you're protesting, it's not a protest. Thousands of people gathered in London this week to voice… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will… — Linda McCartney Copy Share Image
“Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through the crack in the door… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks,… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I… — Patina Miller Copy Share Image
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“They bear down upon Westminster, the ghost-consecrated Abbey, and the history-crammed Hall, through the arches of the bridge with a rush as… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
It was also great shooting in London at Pinewood Studios because of all its history. So many of the 007 movies were… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
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