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“Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.”

“I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.”

People Ifs Turns Numbers Four Football Easier Protect Six Police London Managers Soccer Pope Observers Chairman Stewards Refs

Author:Gordon Strachan

“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.”

“The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.”

Cities Dog Football Safe London Managers Soccer Chairman Portugal City Of London

Author:Jose Mourinho

“It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.”

“"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.”

Art Philosophy Facts Certain History Paper Responsible London Publishing Papers Rumours

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.”

Trying Firsts Lasts Winning Team Football London Cups Tonight Commentators Spurs Tottenham

Author:Mike Ingham

“It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.”

Night Literature Fire London

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running for this Olympics. But here's what happened. We got outbribed.”

Looks Running Funny Cities Happened New York London Gentleman New York City Olympics Ladies And Gentlemen London Olympics

Author:David Letterman

“Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'”

Funny Tests London Officials Olympics Monday Conducting Armstrong Steroid London Olympics

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when they're announcing all the countries, and he's like 'Got a bank account there, got one there, two bank accounts there.'”

Two Country Funny Courses Accounts London Opening Olympics Ceremony Romney Bank Accounts Announcing London Olympics Opening Ceremony

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.”

Ifs Would Be Moving Fun Process Creative Too Much Good Things London Flying Moving Forward Planes Creative Process Jumping Too Much Work

Author:Tom Hanks

“Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women.”

Feels Habit Men And Women My Friends Weak Incredibles London Generous Description Hiking Canoeing Outdoorsman

Author:Nick Offerman

“[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.”

Needs Bigs London Sunglasses

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.”

Home New York My Family Dear London Paris Dear Friend

Author:Clemence Poesy

“Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.”

Shows Saws Cry London Broadway Phenomenal Broadway Shows Billy Elliot

Author:Olesya Rulin

“The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.”

Firsts My Own Youth Summer Expectations First Time Seasons London Theatre Brilliant No Fear Oblivious Youth Theatre

Author:Gina McKee

“I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.”

Actors Acting Band Moved London Joining Manchester

Author:Jim Sturgess

“I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.”

Heart School Girl Parent Grew Grew Up Moved West South London Brits

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I'm back in London.”

Order Shapes London Online Jeans Skinny I'm Back Skinny Jeans Topshop

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.”

Rooms Liberty My Favorite London Stores Department Chocolate Dedicated Radar Department Stores Truffles

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“New York has a great energy, but London is better.”

Energy New York London

Author:Jaime Winstone

“I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.”

People Ifs Looks I Can Country Home Bigs Perfect Five Minutes Car Window London Bus Towers Five Minutes Palaces Buckingham Palace

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.”

Thinking Littles Missing Hearing London Nightmare Flats Going Away Comforting Pubs

Author:Ellie Goulding

“The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.”

Play Fashion Kings Vices British London Paris Tunes Clothings Hostility Vice Versa Chorus Franco

Author:Honore de Balzac

“In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.”

Want Book Certain Names Born Poor Cities Boys Century Ancient London Autumn Quarters Want Him Autumn Days Poor Family City Of London

Book:The Prince and the Pauper

Source: The Prince and the Pauper

“to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.”

Ifs Feels Writing Heart Next Novel London Rage Flags Impossibility Gale Masts

Book:A Change of Perspective

Source: A Change of Perspective

“[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.”

Done Actors Broken Terrible Legs London Barristers

Author:Dorothy Parker

“I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.”

I Can Shows Courses Black Deals Cat London Kitchen Dirt Mice

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“My fantasy is, if I wasnt on Dexter, I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on Doctor Who.”

Ifs Moving Fantasy My Family Doctors London Doctor Who

Author:Manny Coto

“At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.”

Home England London Countryside

Author:Hugh Grant

“until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.”

Has Beens I Can Able Forget Dear London

Book:Under the Net

Source: Under the Net

“If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.”

Ifs Sin Fashion Mines Deserve London Punishment Opera

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.”

Looks Littles Soul Path Streets Filled London Lap Loveliness Archangel

Book:Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

“The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.”

May Children Made Causes Wonderful Food Fairs Cooking Rate London Fats Preserves Reasonable Culinary Chocolate Conception Diverse Venus Efficacy Amiable Procreation Cacao

Author:William H. Coles

“I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, "We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth," but it doesn't feel English.”

Knows Feels Mean Said Earth Cities London Not Sure Britain Olympics They Said

Author:John Cleese

“I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."”

Writing Years Said Shows My Own Walks Comedy Scene Ten Conversation England London Performing Cheer Auditions Jimmy Chatting Comedy Shows Springboards

Author:Shelley Long

“Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.”

Romance Shadow England London Hypocrisy Conventions Fog Decency

Author:Ada Leverson

“I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.”

People May Country Seems Danger London Charming Acquaintance Peril Rabbits Implicit Cholera Sociability

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“London, how could one ever be tired of it?”

Tired London

Book:The Middle Ground

Source: The Middle Ground

“The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.”

Firsts Play America Company Five Twenties London Adapted Twenty Five Dublin

Book:Seven short plays

Source: Seven short plays

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”

“The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.”

Opportunity Property Investment London Excellent

Author:Wang Jianlin

“In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.”

United Cities Tree Example Function Financial London Miles Kingdoms Overwhelming Sheer Fabulous Dominance Poisonous Notorious United Kingdom

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.”

Ifs Writing School Film Form Capacity London Traders Film School Nyu

Author:Jeff Cooper

“[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.”

Way Form Dark Grew London Curious Atmosphere Recalls Rehearsal Irritation

Author:Susan Mitchell

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

“I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.”

Born England London

Author:Charles Keating, Jr.

“London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable”

Used Clean London Used To Be These Days Decent Unbearable Places To Live

Author:Munir Butt

“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.”

Way Has Beens Earth Turns Poor Successful Rich Down And London Miserable Hopeful Despondent

Book:A Star Danced

Source: A Star Danced

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