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“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.”

Years Book Courses Study Degrees Doctors Army Medicine University London Fifth Surgeons Assistants

Book:A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.”

Stills Book House Sports Space Broken Scene Spring London Pleasant Broads Solitary Here And There Pastime Early Spring

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.”

“New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.”

People New York Lovers London Now And Then

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.”

Ifs Would Be Christian Growing Streets Cry Flower Praise Customers London Vendors

Book:Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

Source: Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

“London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!”

World Long Draws Tongue London Curious Insects Frogs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”

War Half Wind Theory Hundred London Operations Bombs Delusion Nazi Naive Reap Whirlwind Warsaw Rotterdam

Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.”

Country Speak London Other Countries Nobility Courtesy Practise

Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.”

Results Study International London Operations Panic Bankers

Author:Eustace Mullins

“During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.”

Years Found Easy Church Ten Singing Critics London Enjoyed Consumers Thoughtful Energetic

Author:Gary Hamel

“A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.”

Writing Wells Spirit Poet Hundred Tables London Chairs Makers Verses Pope Elegance Cabinets

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.”

Thinking Stills Found Cities Hell Brother London My Brother Los Angeles Shelley City Of London

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.”

Men Want Whole Cities Streets New York Remains Clubs London Fortresses

Book:The cart and the horse

Source: The cart and the horse

“I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!'”

People Play Shows House Music Saws Crazy Stage Huge Revolution Dancing London Paris Wow Show Me Djs House Music

Author:David Guetta

“I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.”

People Wells Might Able Force My Own British London Useless Knees Aviation Again And Again Attacking Dutch Airpower

Author:Hermann Goring

“The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.”

World States Government Order Strong Influence London Good Influences Strong Government

Author:Kedar Joshi

“But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!”

House Citizens London

Author:William Shakespeare

“The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.”

“My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.”

Stuff Sun Records Originals South My Favorite London Shops Faust

Author:Tim Gane

“I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.”

Feels London Feel Good I Feel Good Porridge

Author:Fergus Henderson

“My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.”

Has Beens Whole School Boys University London Whole Life Sunday Grammar Cambridge Grammar School Cambridge University

Author:Robert Lacey

“A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.”

Want Ideas Real Use Wanted Young Chance Saws Painting Happenings Rose Woods London Painter Insects

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.”

Firsts Ideas Film London

Author:Colin Farrell

“I love Vivienne Westwood. So much. Every time I go to London, first thing I do is go in there. It's ridiculous!”

Firsts London Ridiculous

Author:Gwen Stefani

“In actual fact, I wanted to be an actor, but I was a lawyer, and I was a week away from qualifying and was fired. And that's the day I made an announcement: "Hey, for seven years, you thought I was going to be a lawyer. Well, I'm not. I've just lost my job, and I'm packing my bags and moving to London tomorrow to be an actor."”

Years Wells Made Facts Wanted Jobs Moving Actors Lost Week Tomorrow Seven London Lawyer Hey Bags Seven Years Announcements Packing Qualifying

Author:Gerard Butler

“London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible.”

People World Cities Exciting London Fantastic Restaurants Urges Pubs Cities In The World

Author:Richard Branson

“Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It's the inverse of drag. It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself. So when I'm campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It's just what I have on, like any woman.”

Trying Sometimes Shows Turns Streets London Campaigns Makeup Drag Nails Costumes Gigs Artifice Campaigning Inverse

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from The Vicar Of Dibley and are big Dibley fans, but they don't have things to shout at me from that show.”

People Knows I Can Shows Bigs Fans Drink London Buying Know Me Vicars

Author:Roger Lloyd-Pack

“A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.”

Reason Bigs Wanted London California Conventions Florida Michigan

Author:Tyler Oakley

“I think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international!”

Thinking International London

Author:Tyler Oakley

“I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great!”

World Looks Cities Week Fans London Glasgow Des Moines

Author:John Waters

“I did many other things before I ever got into the movies. I've been in so many businesses, it's a joke. All of them totally unsuited to me. Selling used cars. Running a club in London.”

Running Used Car Jokes Clubs London Selling Used Car

Author:Sean Connery

“After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.”

Acting Brain Successful Directors Office London Firm Venture Scottish Malls Accountants Sold Out

Author:Sean Connery

“I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.”

Men Believe Cities Mankind Destruction Refuse London Contemplating Ingenuity Inhuman Equanimity Evacuation

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Internet Paper London Best Things Papers I Can Read

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I lived in London in 1965 and 1972. I love it there and I'm always very creative in that vibe. Would love to live for awhile in Scotland/Ireland and Britain. Great appreciation there for the folk scene and song crafting.”

Song Creative Scene Folks Appreciation London Britain Ireland Scotland

Author:Creed Bratton

“When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don't happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.”

Littles Dream Happens Kids School Girl Drama London Little Kid Amy

Author:Amy Winehouse

“New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.”

Knows Stills I Can Problem New York Exciting Chaos London Paris Craziness Places To Live

Author:Robert De Niro

“The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.”

Two Humor Funny Cost London Billions Lots Of Money Olympics Medal Cycling Bronze Bronze Medal

Author:Jimmy Carr

“Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!”

Helping Body Humor Funny Raises Blind London Ran Marathon Jordan Jogging

Author:Frankie Boyle

“I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.”

Feels Born London Teenager Los Angeles My Sister

Author:Jackie Collins

“London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.”

People Way Ideas Seems Space London Spots Hills Collections Desirable

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for them. They gave me a job as a dishwasher (Colin laughs). For me that was a joy because I had a foot in the door of this world class restaurant. Just being around the buzz and the pots and pans and the wonderful food and all this produce that was coming in, that was the start of Paul Rankin the chef.”

Ifs World Jobs Joy Class Laughing Wonderful Doors Feet This World Produce Letters Mad Passionate London Restaurants If I Could Pot Just Being Chef Buzz World Class Dishwashers Pots And Pans

Author:Paul Rankin

“I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.”

Film Saws Students Grew Grew Up Hollywood England British London Manchester

Author:Mike Leigh

“The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.”

Ifs Kind Said Bigs Source Walking Towns Green London Soup Turtles

Author:Russell Hoban

“I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.”

Has Beens Home My Friends England London Apartment Back Home

Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.”

Should Used Community Growing Up Growing London Bars Used To Be Expensive Pillars Pubs Faceless

Author:Jason Flemyng

“My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.”

Firsts Littles Jobs Given Acting Streets Paid Shoes London Newspapers Cheese Dressings Delivering Oxford Dressing Up Good Shoes Oxford Street

Author:Jason Flemyng

“I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!”

Men Years Made Said Done Age Remember Laughing Groups Car Proud London Old Man Filling

Author:Tony Blackburn

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