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“When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.”

Court London Atmosphere Ran Marvelous Palaces Gallery Gateways Hamptons

Author:Jean Plaidy

“Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.”

Kids Three Walks Travel London Organised

Author:Carol Vorderman

“On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.”

Ideas Hands Seems Might Desire Audience Acceptance Periods Built London Bricks Limbs

Author:Siobhan Davies

“I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.”

Men Found Left Party Months London Labour Militant Nelson Labour Party

Author:C. L. R. James

“I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.”

Wanted Courses Fashion College London Journalism Journalist Promotion

Author:Kirsty Gallacher

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”

Lying Night House Dark Darkness Streets Wind Scene Rain London Violent Flames Lamps Occasional Intervals Stormy Stormy Nights

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.”

Mother Father Born Grew Grew Up London Not Sure Boston Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Ghana

Author:Taiye Selasi

“I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.”

Way Has Beens Two Three Constitution Blow London Bombs Suspects Articles Dublin Belfast

Author:Norman Tebbit

“Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.”

Want Play Today United Player Happened London Manchester Manchester United Shearer

Author:Graeme Souness

“I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.”

Men Firsts Study Streets England Studios Finished London One Man Exhibits Ambassadors

Author:Felix de Weldon

“I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life...I can't dispute it.”

Men I Can Hate Exciting I Hate Agree Tired London Despite Disputes Remarks Johnson Tedious Pompous Imbecility Tired Of Life

Author:Bill Bryson

“The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.”

World Looks America Streets Modern Towns Clean London Clock Comparison Telephones Modern World Guarded

Book:Flying Visits

Source: Flying Visits

“Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.”

House Cities Liberty Protection London Refuge Mansions

Author:John Milton

“My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.”

Parent Towns London Manchester Sadie Camden

Author:Sadie Frost

“The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.”

Way Doe Said Facts Faces Fall Voice Challenges Falling In Love London Princess Aspire Bike Cheerful Stairs Messengers Blokes Mario Life Challenges Escalators

Author:Charles Martinet

“In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.”

House Easy Behinds Attention Focus London Behind You

Author:Victoria Wood

“Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Book Film Used Artist Cities Novel New York Painting First Time Stranger London Paris Visiting History Books Florence

Book:Chapman

Source: Chapman

“I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.”

Wanted Stage London Mimi

Author:Mimi Rogers

“The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.”

Want Has Beens Important Problem Kids School Past Stage High School London Mimi

Author:Mimi Rogers

“I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.”

Inspirational Looks Kids Used Growing Up Growing London Older Sister Younger Sister

Author:David Beckham

“Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.”

World Way Time Girl Three Sides Memories Boys Stones Guides London Chiefs Maps Dedicated Arrows Sailor Badges Chapel Abbey Boy Scout Clovers Westminster Navigators Westminster Abbey

Author:Robert Baden-Powell

“All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.”

Two Sometimes Walks Seasons Sells London Orange

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.”

Two Whole Literature Stage Cost Paid London Passages Richmond

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.”

Littles Long Running White Boys Feet Streets Band Blue London Coats Little Boys Robes Clergy

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.”

Jobs New York London Looking Back Back And Forth

Author:Kate Moss

“Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.”

Facts London Solidarity Submission

Author:Tom Paulin

“I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.”

People Needs Littles Home My Own Space London Get Away Apartment

Author:Samantha Mumba

“In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.”

Should Waiting Laughing London Theatre Proof Paris

Author:Robert Dhery

“The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.”

Love Light Peace Space Cooking London Peaceful Gardening Funny Things Light Up Norfolk

Author:Jeremy Northam

“I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.”

People Reading Found London Paris Desks Moscow

Author:W. Averell Harriman

“You know, I have guys that are almost stalkers... it is very strange. I had this one guy that e-mailed me off my site, and thought we were boyfriend and girlfriend. He then came to my house in London, I do not know how he found it.”

Knows Guy Found House Know How Strange London Girlfriend Site Boyfriend And Girlfriend

Author:Caprice Bourret

“Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.”

Thinking Lying Literature Heaven Bed London Brave New World Character Brave New World John

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.”

Men Travel Tired London British History Tired Of Life

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.”

One Day London Shoulders

Author:Alan Parker

“We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.”

Facts Evil Numbers Cities London Needles Small Numbers City Of London Needle In A Haystack

Author:Charles Clarke

“London is a roost for every bird.”

Bird London Londoners Roost City Of London

Book:Lothair

Source: Lothair

“London is a modern Babylon.”

Modern London Babylon

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.”

People Asks House Rooms Class Middle London Ask Me Interviews Middle Class Bmw Middle Class Life

Author:Beth Ditto

“The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ”

Notes London Organs

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.”

Moments Inspiration Motivation Water Modern Century London Healthcare Founding 19th Century Public Health Modern Day

Author:Steven Johnson

“My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.”

Development Periods Patience London Warmth Dedication Orchestra Positively

Author:Gustavo Dudamel

“In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.”

Streets Asking London Teenager Shops Goods Nazi Entry Salesman Affirming Boycott Shoppers Whitechapel

Author:Edwin Black

“It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.”

Way Want Trying Kind Littles Stills Real Home Night Hours Dark Simple Walking Late London Real Life Selling Tea Bus Sanctuary Glowing Rainy Walking Home Rainy Night

Author:Burial

“Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London”

London Expensive Hackney

Author:Meg Hillier

“To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.”

Years Play Today Next Bits Week London Philadelphia Next Week Baltimore Madrid Warsaw Newark

Author:Norman Granz

“I knew I wouldn't have another day off for a while, so I needed to get to London immediately.”

Needed London Another Day Days Off

Author:Fernando Meirelles

“In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.”

Men Earth Animal Secret London

Book:I Can't Stay Long

Source: I Can't Stay Long

“I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.”

Rocks Late London Journalist

Author:Jonathan Demme

“I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.”

Bigs Earth Faces Travel London Spots Paris Freckles

Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

Literature London Empires Drained Idlers Londoners Study In Scarlet

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

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