Quotes of: London Keyword

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

Vincent Cassel

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

V. S. Naipaul

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Virgil Thomson

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

Timothy West

London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others. Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city - New York or Paris or Sydney - but he felt instinctively that London was .... at the extreme. The darker side of that histo...

Scaredy Cat

She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win's, and she remembers the secret silence of London then, the amazing hush of it, slush crunching beneath her feet and the sound made by trapezoidal sections of melting sno...

Pattern Recognition

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Collected Sketches and Lyrics

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

Clockwork Prince

At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.

Jack Wild

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.

Eric Whitacre

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

Sam Taylor-Wood

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'

Victor Pinchuk

London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day

Here's Looking at You

Never go for a drink in London's square mile, nobody ever gets a round in.

Little Luigi: A Musical Adventure

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

London Is the Best City in America

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

London Calling

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

London Calling

He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.

London Calling

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

London Calling

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

London Calling

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

London Calling