London Quotes - Page 28

• ... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Sight, Advancement

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.297, 谷月社

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• The other night I went out to have dinner in a London pub and the barmaid had this whole conversation saying, 'You look just like that guy from Twilight'. Every time she came up, she said something like, 'You literally could be his brother'. But she never put two and two together.

  Robert Pattinson

  Brother, Twilight, Night

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• My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

  Natascha McElhone

  Oasis, Library, Wonderful

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• I am definitely a west London girl.

  Amelia Warner

  Girl, West

  "Starlet Fever" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2005.

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• The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

  Amelia Warner

  Views, Bridges, Waterloo

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• I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

  Charlie Cox

  Country, America, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

  Jaime Murray

  Home, Unique, British

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• London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

  Robert Smythe Hichens

  Over You, Black, Influence

  Robert Smythe Hichens (1934). “The Woman with the Fan”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.

  Mary Borden

  Life, Done, Reason Why

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• I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

  Lennie James

  Sports, School, Boys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

  Arabella Weir

  Kids, School, Chairs

  "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.

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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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• Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Rome, Pavement, Easy

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• Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Childhood, Done, Said

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• Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

  Eleanor Catton

  Moving, Different, Would Be

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• They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

  Charlotte Church

  Planning, My Family, Bigs

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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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• It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

  Clement Attlee

  Nice, Government, Car

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• It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, New York, Real

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I love the water; it inspires me, even if it is dirty London water that I look at.

  Michelle Mone

  Dirty, Water, Inspire

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Museums, Government, Theatre

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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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 will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

  William Booth

  Jesus, Heart, Army

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• I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

  Ray Davies

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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