London Quotes - Page 20

• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  Ed Stoppard

  Jobs, Book, Two

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• Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

  Rob Sheffield

  New York, Stars, Inspiration

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• I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

  Kingsley Martin

  War, Reading, Men

  Kingsley Martin (1960). “Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956”

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• If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  New York, Hate, World

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• I like BBC news, I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

  Brian Grazer

  Rose, News, Charlie

  "Brian Grazer On “Frost/Nixon,” Bush’s Damage, His Hair And More". Interview with Katherine Thomson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

  Simon Pegg

  Boys, Littles, Middle

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Father, Successful, Library

  "Anthony Horowitz: My family values". Interview With Liza Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cutting, Understanding, Bombs

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Play, Issues

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Rome, Paris

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• I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others.

  James Weldon Johnson

  New York, Thinking, May

  James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.163, Modern Library

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• I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

  Philippa Gregory

  Summer, Country, Couple

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• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  Hamish Bowles

  Uplifting, Country, Fashion

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• I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

  Vijender Singh

  Boxing, Moments, Beijing

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• I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Expectations, Moved

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• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  Zach Braff

  Sports, Dad, School

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• When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Morning, Good Life

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• Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

  Martha Grimes

  Historical Novels, Details, Spheres

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• I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.

  Vince Vaughn

  Beautiful, Art, Rallying Cry

  Source: collider.com

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• [On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.

  Susan Mitchell

  Dark, Irritation, Atmosphere

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• Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ideas, Paris, Pet

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.117, The Floating Press

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• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Men, Editors

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• I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Attachment, Done, Intense

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.108

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• I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

  Carolyn Wells

  Travel, Yards, Literature

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• Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Baby, Peace, War

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