Books Quote by Ben Okri

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say…

— Ben Okri

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson…

— John Mortimer

“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human beings to…

— Salmon Rushdie

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave…

— Mark Haddon

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

— David Naughton

I lived in London, went to the London School of Economics, do a lot of business in London, and have a lot of fun…

— Anthony Scaramucci

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness…

— Ben Okri

When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.

— Sia

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

— Rodney Dangerfield

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the…

— Nick Park

I went to London a lot as a young designer because London was a major inspiration, not only for the clothes but the sense…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

“The next morning he boarded the train for the six-hour journey south that would bring him to the strange gothic spires and arches of…

— Neil Gaiman

My cousin's gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

— Carole King

I toured with Andrea Bocelli, went to London to do a show for a year in the West End.

— Heather Headley