London Quotes - Page 40

• Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Sky, Bully

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.108

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• During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

  George Andrew Olah

  Literature, Able, Firsts

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• I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Nice, Light, Fans

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• My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Return, Range

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.79, Wakefield Press

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• My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

  Gail Porter

  Mother, Home, Tv Shows

  "Gail Porter: My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

  Jean Plaidy

  Years, Cities, Lucky

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• When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

  Jean Plaidy

  Atmosphere, Palaces, Court

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• Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

  Carol Vorderman

  Travel, Kids, Three

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• On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

  Siobhan Davies

  Acceptance, Hands, Ideas

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• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Men, Months

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• I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Fashion, College, Journalism

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• It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Rain, Dark

  "Paul Clifford". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

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• I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

  Taiye Selasi

  Mother, Father, Ghana

  "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.

  Norman Tebbit

  Blow, Two, Three

  Sky television, July 19, 1993.

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• Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

  Graeme Souness

  Player, Want, Today

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• The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.

  Robert E. Howard

  Moving, Insanity, Brain

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, c. November 1928.

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• It got to the point where I sat on the side of the bed in a hotel room in London in early-1990 and said to whoever or whatever: 'If you are there will you please contact or leave me because you are driving me up the wall.'

  David Icke

  Wall, Bed, Rooms

  "About David Icke: The Man, His Philosophy, and His Work". Essay by David Icke,

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• It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Goal, Democracy, Speech

  "Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?". www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2005.

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• Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

  Ali Khamenei

  Thug, Israel, Iran

  "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.

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• In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

  John Galt

  Men, Creatures

  1821 The Ayrshire Legatees, ch.7,'Discoveries and Rebellions', letter 22.

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• I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.

  KT Tunstall

  Crazy, Ideas, Two

  "The Eyes Have It". Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague, web.archive.org. February 2006.

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• Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi Arabia where men are men, and women are cattle.

  Pat Condell

  Men, Arabia, Rainy

  YouTube Chanel "Pat Condell"/ "More Demands From Islam", www.youtube.com. October 9, 2007.

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• I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

  John R. Rice

  New York, Real, Cities

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• London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

  Sándor Márai

  Boredom, Desert, Endless

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• What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Simplicity, Weakness, Reform

  Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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