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“There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.”

“I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.”

World Way Country Fashion Stupid Ambition London Resistance Designer Punk Rebellious My Ambition Fashion Designer Very Stupid

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.”

Want Young Artist London Britain Shops

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”

Men World Political Politics Tables Dinner London Dinner Table Londoners

Author:Oscar Wilde

“My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.”

Firsts Students Vote East London Medical My Time Labour Communist East London

Author:Robert Winston

“I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.”

Home School Used Night Born Tired London Used To Be Scotland

Author:Norman Wisdom

“This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”

Feels Soul Sometimes Lost Walks Imagine Air Streets London Passing Passings Melancholy Imagine That Compelled Londoners City Of London

Book:John Sherman & Dhoya

Source: John Sherman & Dhoya

“I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.”

Wanted Remember Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Theater London

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.”

Wanted Fall Rocks Elements Inspired London Lifestyle Classic Rock N Roll Intricate Moody Baroque Equestrian

Author:Rachel Zoe

“Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.”

Country America Film Space Shots India Clean Studios London Obsession Indian Switzerland

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.”

Growth Cities Influence Extremes London Victorian Dickens

Author:Danny Boyle

“My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.”

Language Sound Voice Hours My Family Ears Raised London Mess Queens Accents Liverpool Crisps Butlers

Author:John Oliver

“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.”

Ifs Sound My Family Raised London Tone Accents Liverpool Brits Birmingham Vowels

Author:John Oliver

“Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.”

Littles Shows Bigs London Theatre

Author:Zach Braff

“And one more thing. About my name — Artemis — you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.”

Use Names Talent Female Males London Greek Hunting Goddess Now And Then Hunters Artemis Hunted Fowl Archery Artemis Fowl

Author:Eoin Colfer

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.”

Ifs Wells Looks Sometimes Walks Powerful Figures Fellows Caught London Bent Machinery Haggard Meaning Well

Book:Aunts Omnibus

Source: Aunts Omnibus

“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Hard Fall Given Christ Hours Watches Knowing Comedy Missing Jokes Rain Window Heavy London Staring Flats Nerves Not Knowing Tire Exhaustion

Author:Martin Amis

“For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.”

Men Whole Running Night Dark Rooms Sky Return Claims Longing Patterns Intuition London Sat Running Away Wet Purple Brilliance Night Sky Dark Room

Author:Doris Lessing

“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

Men Air Circumstances England London Income Empires Permit Eleven Drained Idlers Study In Scarlet

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”

Knows Mean I Can Book Can Do My Own Mystery Brave London Start The Day I Can Do This

Book:Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders

Source: Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders

“We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.”

“Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.”

Men Said Character Order Moral Opinion Fellows London Checks Suits Supposed To Be Bizarre Trifles Frost Tailors Moral Character Saying Nothing Jeeves

Book:Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories

Source: Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories

“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”

Looks Long Book Done Enough Lasts Lost Process Sleep Pleasure Talking Sun Gone Sky Youth Equal Window Rose Delight Dinner London Shoulders Triumph Shock Chairs Pushing Shelves

Book:Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

“Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928

“I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.”

Home Mother House Right Now London Spain Milan Where Home Is

Author:Sarah Brightman

“But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”

Stories Rooms Fine London Driven Mysterious Temper Royalty Visitors Devilish

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.”

Years Wells Children Has Beens Young Knowing Doubt Food Healthy London No Doubt Nurse Delicious Assured Acquaintance Healthy Children Wholesome Food

Author:Jonathan Swift

“When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.”

Men Book Funny Young House Dark Weight Blue London Young Man Establishment Cheese Casting Mould Dark Places Flavour

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a love complex and ravenous, ancient, neither this nor that. It will serve as this afternoon's manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all.”

“I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj”

Different Self Use Felt Known Violence Higher Weapons India Bravery Protection London Contact Indian Remedy Impressed Zeal Anarchist Civilisation Misguided Self Protection

Book:Hind Swaraj

Source: Hind Swaraj

“Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.”

Men Has Beens War Hands Together Students Evidence Affair London Satan Plague Exhibits Get Together Omen Good Omens

Book:Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.”

Ifs Left Perfect London Knees If I Could Maps Scar Handy

Author:J. K. Rowling

“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.”

Seems Travel London Egypt Exotic

Author:Laura Fraser

“Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.”

World Way Art Whole Shadow Bases London Architecture Paris Rome Great Art Tunnels Pyramids Great Power

Author:Dan Brown

“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!”

Men World Names Black Wonder Moral Lonely Greed London Holes Cruelty Demon Pigs Privileged Pits Spit Mock Zoos Filth Peru Vermin Sweeney Sweeney Todd

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as an life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement and I tried to be Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiance, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruit fly.”

“Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.”

May Stills Eternal London

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

“It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.”

Heart Together Spirit Forever Periods Towns London Parks Links Countryside Hyde Hyde Park

Book:I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition

Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition

“Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.”

Years Two Faces Missing Arms Hundred Angel Standing Saint London Weather Roof Statues Stairs Cripples

Book:Scorpia

Source: Scorpia

“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”

World Way Hands Culture Given Levels Cities Design London Planning Paris Rome Dedicated Detroit Great Cities Expediency Urban Planning American Cities

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.”

Way Moments Earth Moving Born Modern Luck Train Crowds London Best Way Moving Forward Cheerful Elegant Good Luck Noisy Staircases

Author:Milan Kundera

“You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Has Beens Whole Character Lasts Left Wonder Months Six London Silly Consent Adore Six Months Scandal Arthur Adore You I Adore You

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work with me. Well, that’s fine. Because I don’t want to work with you either. And for what it’s worth, nobody would ever believe you were my mom because no mom would ever behave like you.” “Alex…,” Carver began. “Forget it! I’m going back to London. And if you’re Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn’t like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam.”

Ifs Want Believe Wells Made Said Enough Home Asks Forget Clear Like You Fine Mom Decided My Mom London Made It Behave Knives Forget It Jam Alex Had Enough Jelly Carver

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“Imagine: you've spent all day traipsing round London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been living on hope, ignoring reality, fuelled only by feelings you don't understand. You've been looking for a dream, never truly believing you'd find it, but now – incredibly – you have. It's right there in front of you – just behind that off-white door. It's there ...”

Trying Believe Feelings Dream Reality Lost White Behinds Imagine Doors Fronts Illusion Chaos London Living On Mazes

Author:Kevin Brooks

“I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?”

Way Next Week Fine Circumstances Drink London Unhappy Next Week

Book:Juliet, Naked

Source: Juliet, Naked

“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.”

People Knows Believe Ends Care I Believe Easier Caring London Curse Helen Howards End

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.”

Ifs World Want Doe Play Turns Heaven Band Standing Guitar London Beach

Author:Thom Yorke

“It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.”

Sports London Gossip Cricket

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".”

Book Results Modern London Realms Brown Assets Register Surveys Treasury Inquisition Boomers

Author:James Buchan

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