London Quotes - Page 11

• There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sacrifice, Monogamy, Bloody

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• Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

  Noel Gallagher

  America, World

  "Noel Gallagher on going solo and working with hippies". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2012.

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• London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, New York, Style

  "Alexa Chung: the forces that move fashion" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

  Ken Adam

  Art, Class, Differences

  "Sir Ken Adam on Designing James Bond Sets and Working With Kubrick". Interview with Steve Karras, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

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• I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

  Oksana Chusovitina

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• 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

  Art, New York, Important

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• Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

  Charlie Brooker

  Skills, Oxford, People

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• I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

  Ed Balls

  Government, Saving, Next

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• If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!

  Pierre Daninos

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

  Steve McFadden

  Kids, Ideas, Acting

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• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, Memories, July

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• We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, July, Bombers

  "This 7/7 report wasn't good enough" by Pauline Neville-Jones, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

  Peter York

  Art, Media, Conquest

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• Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.

  Peter York

  Attitude, Class, Style

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• In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.

  Peter York

  Country, Ambition, Cutting

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• The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

  Peter York

  Community, House, Generations

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• At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

  Gerry Beckley

  Nice, Unique, Groups

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• I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

  Tamera Mowry

  Husband, World, Courses

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• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  University

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• And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Pride, Dust

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• That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Desire, Needs

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.44

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• I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Paris, Special, Different

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Photography, Fashion, Drama

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

  Alex Prager

  New York, Florida, Small Amounts

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Memories, People, Southern

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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