Quotes About London

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

I was able to start a family in London and so on. It's a very dear place to my heart and will continue to be.

For many there is a degree of constancy in our culture; London won't let you down.

I went for two days to the Delhi Campus of the University of London and did not go back again.

I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.

In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.

London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.

The London fans know what I bring to the table. Destruction.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

I've been lucky that I haven't encountered much adversity growing up in London and having friends from all different backgrounds.

I simply love to live here. London is a world city. There is so much you can do. There are many different cultures here, and I just feel very, very comfortable.

There's so much to London, so many different kinds of people and people are the key to life, but my favourite part? It's got to be Bow, where I come from.

I'm trying to know every part of London, to improve my English and enjoy the football. On my days off, I go to different parts of the city.

Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.

London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.

If I become mayor of London, my single biggest priority will be to build thousands more homes every year. I will set a target to make half of all the new homes that are built genuinely affordable, with first dibs for Londoners.

I got recruited to join a research team at SCL group which, at the time, was a British military contractor based in London. Most of its clients were various ministries of defense in NATO countries. And what we were looking at is how to use data online to identify people who would be likely targets of different extremist groups.

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.