Quotes About London

I lie here for a few moments, willing it to go away. I'd hoped that by moving back to London I could leave it behind, with no forwarding address. But now it's found me and it's not giving up without a fight. But neither am I. Summoning my courage, I throw back my duvet. Because if there's one thing I do know, it's that you must never give in to a bully. And The Fear is the very worst kind.

I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.

It was a waste of time to sit on the bench in London.

Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory.

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You've no control over those things, so in a way, it's wasted energy to think of them.

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

I watched the Olympics in 2012 in London, and there were so many great performances there, so many people, so many sports.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

My favorite thing is just walking around London in no direction. I love people watching. And you can turn down a street and feel suddenly as if you are in Venice, or you'll be in a Spanish area or somewhere very English or Middle Eastern.

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

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.

I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.

London was the Olympics that I was most nervous about. From coming into the venue and stepping on to the mat, people were supporting with 'Saori' banners and waving the Japanese flag, so even though it was London, I felt much more like fighting at home that way, which was really inspiring.

London centre has a wealth of creative activity but there are parts of London where there isn't a cinema or where library provision is quite weak.

My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I ain't flash. I'm just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London.

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

I don't really see the point in planning to show off-schedule. I think it's things like showing on-schedule that helps London be organised as it is.

London is really nice, and I'm really happy here, but, of course, I've moved here to play football and not just to be in the city.

Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance.

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.