J A London Quotes

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

I hate London when it's not raining.

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, You should give it a go in London.

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

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.

I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

Bill has three goldfish. He buys two more. How many dogs live in London?

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

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.

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.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

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.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.