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“Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.”

Made Bigs Inspiration Kids Stars Vision Generations Rocks Style New York London Los Angeles Southern Bohemian

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.”

Years Facts Trouble Crime Grew Grew Up My Family Moved Israel Terrorism London Bombs Bags Facts Of Life

Author:Yochai Benkler

“I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.”

“I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing”

People Thinking Writing Song Next Wonderful Materials Source Sitting Police Phones London Like Me Parks Next Time Wonderful Places

Author:Ray Davies

“I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.”

People Ideas Hard Play Hard Work International London Thrive

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others.”

Thinking Feels Kind May Different Whole Found Language Causes Wonder Heard Week New York Please Privilege London Allowing Different Kinds Introducing Slang

Book:The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson

Source: The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson

“London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.”

Humans Home London Hills Bowls Fluid County Rims

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.”

Country Whole America Fashion New York Particular Scene Optimism London Scales Uplifting Scope Thrilling Decorating Energizing Fashion Business

Author:Hamish Bowles

“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.”

Knows Has Beens Moments London Indian Boxing Medal Beijing Watersheds

Author:Vijender Singh

“I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.”

Giving Trying Heart Said Faces Lost Loses Challenges Accepting Plans Goes On Give Me Stronger London Olympics London Olympics Give Me Strength

Author:Vijender Singh

“I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.”

Needs Prepared London Factors Concentration Olympics Lapses

Author:Vijender Singh

“I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.”

Expectations Moved London

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.”

Energy Cities New York My Favorite London Paris Toughness Rio Rio De Janeiro Favorite City

Author:Lapo Elkann

“I hate London when it's not raining.”

Home Hate Travel Rain I Hate London Londoners Good Weather

Author:Groucho Marx

“When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.”

Years Hands Beautiful Life Is Lord Morning Years Ago London Fifty Shakes Companion Good Life Missionary Another Life Life Is Good

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.”

Made Novel Rich Exciting Historical Details London Description Spheres Elegant Debut Historical Novels

Author:Martha Grimes

“The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.”

Made Government Understanding Cities Known Technology Tradition Investment London Valleys Knowledgeable Silicon Silicon Valley Matched City Of London

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.”

Children Two Home Three House Library British London Two Days

Author:David Nicholls

“Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.”

“I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.”

“I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.”

World Littles Culture Bits Little Bit Distance London Fingertips

Author:Cillian Murphy

“I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on its head and I can't walk down the street unless I'm wearing dark sunglasses and a ninja kit.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Has Beens I Can Whole Home Dark Walks Roles Streets London Bus Slips Minors Recognise Sunglasses Narnia Ninja Home Life

Author:Skandar Keynes

“I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.”

Kind Persons Young College Drug London Curriculum

Author:Lake Bell

“Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.”

Ideas Different Virtue Bears Fruit London Paris Manifestation Abstract Pet Surroundings Provence Constantinople

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.”

Writing Wells Art Play Chance Boys Morning Goes On Office London Producers These Days Secretary Rubbish My Boys

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.”

“I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.”

Done London Intense Locals Attachment

Book:Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

“St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.”

Cities Towns London Bubbles

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.”

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank

“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”

England London Monstrous Civilised

Book:Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle

“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”

Ifs Said Care Literature Subjects Changed Travel Stones Window Don't Care London I Don't Care Yards Shrines Imbeciles

Author:Carolyn Wells

“London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.”

World Want Fine Institutions Library British London Museums

Author:David Attenborough

“Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.”

People World War Streets Quiet Towns London War Of The Worlds Dislike World War Ii World War I Crowded

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.”

World War Soul Feelings Peace Expression Baby London Curious War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Sublime After Death Newborn Hysterical Tiredness Revulsion Newborn Baby Dazed

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.”

Mother Forget London Queens Royalty Discouraging

Book:The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

“George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, "So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds.”

Stills Economy Losing Letters Weight London Pounds Delightful Here I Am

Author:Milton Friedman

“The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.”

Ifs Thinking World Week Serious Climate London Suits Paris Vienna Days Of The Week

Author:David Attenborough

“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.”

Men Form Joy Spirit Nations Prayer Sorrow Seeking London Dumb Conventional Frozen Great Spirit Abbey Ascending Westminster Requiem Westminster Abbey

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.”

Looks Work Appreciate Lifetime British London Museums British Museum

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking.”

Ifs Needs Used Drink Built Drinking London Quitting Quit Drinking

Author:Tom Ford

“London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."”

Kind Real Hands Bits Cities My Friends London Crowded Dump

Author:Nick Lowe

“I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.”

Cities New York Grew Dad Grew Up England My Dad London New York City

Author:J. C. Chandor

“We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.”

Knows Needs Book Country Huge Winter Library London Disadvantages

Author:Mordecai

“I love the free spirit in London.”

Spirit London Free Spirit

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.”

Wells Children School Jobs Acting Known Drama Seven London Locals Well Known Non Stop

Author:Naomie Harris

“I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.”

Hard Raises London

Author:Keith Teare

“I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, You should give it a go in London.”

People Giving Should Years Two Night Heard London Two Years Mics Brighton

Author:James Bay

“I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.”

My Family Majority South London My Time End Times Coast Spend Time Hometown Brighton

Author:Katie Price

“Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.”

Knows Firsts Made Religion Secret England Surprise London Passing Passings Fixed Gestures Towers Electricity Monument Traveller Newness

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.”

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