London Quotes - Page 16

• I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

  Alex Prager

  New York, Florida, Small Amounts

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Pride, Dust

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• At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

  Gerry Beckley

  Nice, Unique, Groups

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• I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

  Oksana Chusovitina

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• Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.

  David Markson

  Taken, Europe, Trying

  David Markson (2007). “The Last Novel”, p.57, Counterpoint

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• Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

  Thomas Hood

  Sheep, Gone, Half

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Play, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

  Ken Adam

  Art, Class, Differences

  "Sir Ken Adam on Designing James Bond Sets and Working With Kubrick". Interview with Steve Karras, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Voice, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Chocolate, Liberty, Rooms

  “Power Shopping: ‘Revenger’s Ashley Madekwe Reveals her Fasion Favorites” by Lyndsay Flans, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Father, Writing, Mad

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• I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

  Ken Livingstone

  Exercise, Ethical Standards, Office

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2000.

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• It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

  Camille Pissarro

  Doe, Justified, Critics

  Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

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• If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.

  Muriel Siebert

  Talking, Risk, United States

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• If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Attitude, Cities, Yuppies

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• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  Bayard Taylor

  Atmosphere, World, Advantage

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.306

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• In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Government

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  New York, Paris, League

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• I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Vintage, Bridges, Clothes

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• I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

  Erin O'Connor

  Tourists

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• Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

  William Wordsworth

  Garden, Water, Labyrinth

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.1983, Delphi Classics

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• So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

  John Dryden

  Art, Oxford, Made

  'Prologue to the University of Oxon...at the Acting of The Silent Woman' (1673)

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• Winter has arrived in North London. Snow has settled.
  The white snow looks beautiful and covers everything my eyes can see, yet beneath the incomprehensible beauty, the snow freezes greenery which struggles to breathe.
  Green leaves freeze from existence as children scream go faster to fathers who push them along in upside down bin lids, as they make the most of their schools being closed.

  Craig Stone

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.

  Edward Thomas

  Flower, Thinking, Hands

  Thomas, Edward (2014). “The South Country”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

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• London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Law, Doe

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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