London Quotes - Page 20

• Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

  Martha Grimes

  Historical Novels, Details, Spheres

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• The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Government, Cities

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• I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

  David Nicholls

  Children, Home, Two

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• Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.

  Dave Calhoun

  Photography, Country, Artist

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• I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.

  Vince Vaughn

  Beautiful, Art, Rallying Cry

  Source: collider.com

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• I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

  Cillian Murphy

  Distance, Culture, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on its head and I can't walk down the street unless I'm wearing dark sunglasses and a ninja kit.

  Skandar Keynes

  Home, Dark, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.

  Lake Bell

  College, Drug, Curriculum

  "Lake Bell Talks "How To Make In America," Embarrassing Boyfriends, and Kid Cudi". Interview By Andrew Rivera, www.complex.com. April 3, 2010.

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• Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ideas, Paris, Pet

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.117, The Floating Press

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• Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Art, Writing

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• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Men, Editors

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• I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Attachment, Done, Intense

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.108

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• St. Paul's
  Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, Towns, Bubbles

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

  Anne Frank

  War, Thinking, People

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

  Thomas Carlyle

  England, Civilised, Monstrous

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.167

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• I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

  Carolyn Wells

  Travel, Yards, Literature

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• Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, People, Towns

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• Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Baby, Peace, War

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• George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, "So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds.

  Milton Friedman

  Here I Am, Weight, Letters

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• Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Prayer, Men, Joy

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• To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Work, Museums, Appreciate

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• If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking.

  Tom Ford

  Drinking, Needs, Quitting

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."

  Nick Lowe

  Real, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

  J. C. Chandor

  New York, Dad, Cities

  "Director: ‘Margin Call’ Relevant To Occupy Movement", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.

  Mordecai

  Country, Book, Winter

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