Quotes About London

McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman. He was lucky to keep the job after his 'Seven Days in May' stunt in London last year when he openly lobbied and undercut the president on the surge. But with the latest sassing, and the continued Sisyphean nature of the surge he urged, McChrystal should offer his resignation. He should try subordination for a change.

She'll follow the river south through Lake Havasu City, where some rich person, she has heard, actually bought the London Bridge and shipped it over block by block to stand lonely in the desert.

Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. They'll solve it." Reggie chuckled when he realized Sebastian was puzzled, if only momentarily. "That's the real name for Scotland Yard, which is actually the name of the street and the building where they are housed.

moving over to a new building on the Embankment." Sebastian nodded, sipped his drink. "I didn't know that." Reggie went on, "Centuries ago, the street called Scotland Yard housed a palace where the Scottish kings stayed when they visited London.

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

The first scientifically grounded forecast appeared in the Times (London) on August 1, 1861, predicting a temperature in London of 62°F, clear skies, and a southwesterly wind. The forecast proved to be accurate—the temperature peaked at 61°F that day—and before long, weather forecasts became a staple of most newspapers, even if they were rarely as accurate as FitzRoy's initial prediction.

London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

A Foreign Office diplomat in London wrote in the margins of a Tehran report: "I tend to the view that Musaddiq still enjoys some public support, more than some of our close friends would have us believe. . . . Coup d'état may well be the only answer.

Regent's Park," she said, frowning. "The Zoo is there, is it not? I daresay you should feel quite at home." Again, she smiled. "In London, that is.

Churches are not franchises to be reproduced as exactly as possible wherever and whenever—in Rome and Moscow and London and Baltimore—the only thing changed being the translation of the menu.

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely on if they are criminal or politically exposed in their own country.

Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I've realised that I'm basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class people who I meet in parliament, people who live in London - which I think is remarkable because how can anybody afford to live there - seem much, much more middle class than me.

Everyone remembers where they were on 7 July 2005 when four deadly bombs ripped through the heart of London.

I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.

Spending a lot of time in London not only gave me inspiration, but also the opportunity to meet in person some great collaborators, who I'd earlier interacted with only remotely.

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.