19 Brighton Quotes for You to Enjoy

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside. Cate Blanchett

Rain Miss Countryside Much Including Brighton

I feel more comfortable in a place like Brighton - a town, with one centre, one bus station, one train station. And there are so many arty, creative people, and things are less rushed, less stressed. Gabrielle Aplin

Playing Joanne in 'London to Brighton' was my first taste of film, and I loved every second of it. Georgia Groome

First Every London Taste Loved Film Brighton Second Playing Every Second

My wife is from Brighton so I got a bit of stick for going to Palace even though in my first three-and-a-half years at Brighton I didn't actually face them. So I don't think I completely understood the rivalry. Glenn Murray

Wife Face First Think Bit Though Rivalry Stick Got Understood Years Going Them Even Palace Actually Brighton

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career. Harold Budd

Ending Perfect Felt Interesting Really Brighton Career

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.' Jon Tenney

Me Country Met Broadway Neil Memoirs Beach Simon Toured Put Like Around Blues Producers Who Brighton Plays

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

Great Me Light Great Deal Thought Country Live Think Neither City London Seemed Struck Both Perfect Town Like Deal Nor Years Common Moved Place Which Apart Actually Brighton

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has developed. Michael Portillo

Light Way Ways Some Structures Remarkable Developed Shed Buildings Modern Different Explored Helped Different Ways Brighton Britain

Few people have heard of John Hawkshaw, the engineer responsible for Brighton's sewers, but he also built the Severn Tunnel and parts of the London Underground system. Such figures, largely forgotten now, conceived an infrastructure that was perfect in its fine detail and intended to last for a century or more - as it has. Michael Portillo

People Engineer Few System Responsible Detail Fine John London More Perfect He Conceived Also Underground Parts Built Heard Intended Few People Forgotten Tunnel Infrastructure Century Figures Now Largely Brighton Last

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat. Paul McGann

Me Eat Gives Near Brighton Sleep

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology. Paul Nurse

Work Good Strong Reputation Biology Good Place Excellent Had Genetics Because Tradition Decided Place Molecular Brighton University

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question. Robert Webb

I had some really early recordings when I was 16 or 17. I was rapping over jungle beats with my friends. We used to do pirate radio stations in my area, down near Brighton. They were pretty terrible. Rag'n'Bone Man