London Quotes - Page 5

• In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

  David Blunkett

  Travel, Exercise, Giving

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

  Ewan McGregor

  Towns, Plans

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• When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, New York, Humorous

  Quoted in Jerusalem Post, 24 Feb. 1989

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• You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Flames, Cities, House

  Archibald MacLeish, William Samuel Paley, Edward R. Murrow (1941). “In Honor of a Man and an Ideal...: Three Talks on Freedom”

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• I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

  Robert De Niro

  New York, Rome, Cities

  "Robert De Niro: the ultimate viewing guide" by Angie Errigo, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

  Bradley Wiggins

  Earth, Host, Shows

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• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

  Elliott Carter

  Zero, Paris, Bigs

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• On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

  Otto Schily

  Hands, Subway, Add

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• I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Gay, Artist, Men

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

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• A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

  T. S. Eliot

  Bridges, Crowds, Undone

  The Waste Land l. 60 (1922).

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• If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

  Peter Shaffer

  New York, Oil Painting, Watercolors

  The New York Times, April 13, 1975.

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• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  Orlando Bloom

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Coward, Obscurity, Rust

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.48, Xist Publishing

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• Nothing is certain in London but expense.

  William Shenstone

  Certain, Expenses

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• Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

  Claire Forlani

  Missing, Spirit, Sometimes

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• London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

  James Geary

  New York, Cities, Brain

  "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.

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• There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

  Christian Slater

  Soul, Theatre, Littles

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

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• They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Dreamer, Looks

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• As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

  Goldwin Smith

  Poetic, Deeper, Poetry Is

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Hero, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2316, Delphi Classics

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• When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

  Bjork

  Teenager, Rocks, Iceland

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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  Orlando Bloom

  Years, Three, Roles

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• On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

  Lillie Langtry

  Princess, Night, Duchess

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