Quotes About London

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

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

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

The Thames is liquid history.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously.

While General Humberto Mariles of Mexico was winning the gold medal in show jumping on Arete, I snuck into the enclosure at the base of the Olympic flame tower in Wembly Stadium to do what little boys do. A horrified English bobby, helmet and all, chased me over the fence, calling me a "horrid little boy." He did not know how right he was.