J A London Quotes

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I'm back in London.

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.

I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

I'll probably go to London and hide.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

There are too many things to count that I like about London.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

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

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

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

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

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.

Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly.

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there.

Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a tough market, Paris is a tough market, but New York, well, that's extraordinary.

London, dirty little pool of life

I was just in London - there is a 6 hour time difference. I'm still confused. When I go to dinner, I feel sexy. When I go to bed, I feel hungry.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.