London Quotes - Page 39

• London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.

  Sadiq Khan

  New York, Skills, Cities

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.

  Sadiq Khan

  Home, Average, Earning

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• I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

  Sadiq Khan

  Ministers, Mayors, Transport

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• We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

  Sadiq Khan

  Squares, Oxford, Tree

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• What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.

  Sadiq Khan

  Champion, Want, Fighter

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• I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.

  Sadiq Khan

  Use, Want, Pay

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• London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a whole is ten years behind London. If you have a Mayor of London working for jobs and growth and strong businesses, that is going to create opportunities for businesses and people in Burnley or Hull and places all over the UK.

  Sadiq Khan

  Country, Strong, Jobs

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

  George Benjamin

  Friendly, Needs, World

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Rights, Agreement

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates?

  Joe Arpaio

  Fighting, Cells, Iraq

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• London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

  David Attenborough

  Museums, Library, World

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. September 20, 2013.

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• The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Paris, Climate

  "Sir David Attenborough says Richmond is his favourite place on Earth". interview with Time Out London, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2013.

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• London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

  David Bailey

  Real, Cities, Office

  The Scene Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2006.

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• I don't feel very optimistic in London.

  David Bailey

  Optimistic, Feels

  "David Bailey's India: the long click goodbye" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

  David Bailey

  Amazing Places, Curious, Ifs

  The Scene Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2006.

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• I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, World, Want

  "Strange fiction". Interview With James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2008.

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• On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mixing, Principles, Gum

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• I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Towns, Small Town, Grew Up

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• Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Spain

  “Talk Asia”, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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

  Danny Boyle

  Cities, Growth, Influence

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• 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.

  Zach Braff

  Theatre, Littles, Bigs

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• 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.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Rome, Pyramids

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• 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".

  James Buchan

  Book, Modern, Assets

  "Judgment Day... again" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.

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• It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.

  Julie Burchill

  Faces, Sides, Driving

  "Things I've never done before: My first time driving" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2008.

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• When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.

  Julie Burchill

  Country, Thinking, Light

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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