Quote by John Lanchester Download Open image ““London created the Underground, and the Underground created London.”” — John Lanchester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Entering the underground was the most powerful thing I've ever done. That's where you finally learn to see.” — Dark Night Beacon Copy Share Image
“London was like a drug - an incredible high you never wanted to come off of. It made you feel like you could do… — Chanel Cleeton Copy Share Image
“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“When he had first arrived, he had found London huge, odd, fundamentally incomprehensible, with only the Tube map, that elegant multicolored topographical display of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that the state… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
