1069 London Quotes for You to Enjoy

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant. Ron Moody

School Economics London Study Psychology Grant Sociology

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. Ronald Biggs

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys. Rory MacLean

Home Breakfast Corn Spell Our Hung Evocative High City Table London Above Alley Roads Over Lee Up Canada Wall Grew Capital Map Illustrator Medieval Kerry

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous. Rory MacLean

Me Creative Fickle Anarchist Ways Complex Thousand City London Faces Both Tender Bleak Callous Fresh Always Surprised Ambitious Itself Familiar Contrary Moved Reinventing

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe. Rose George

Life Home Great Sewer Cities Willingly Bored London Some Above Network Paris Brussels Arguably Splendid Tourists Tours Most Prague Curious Vienna Ground Descend Europe Expose Below Museums

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went to Sewage School and hung out with kids learning to make sewage soup and how to clean sewage. And it was great - really good fun. Rose George

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career. Ruth Bradley

Love Focused London More Dublin Working Career

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.' Ryan Reynolds

You Finished Believe Months Bite Wow Eat London Ripped Having He New Another How Were Been New Orleans Shooting Goes Sitting Just Movie After Agent Orleans Actually Four

Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there were a lot of radical, fashionable young people on the streets and in the venues. Ryuichi Sakamoto

People Punk Young Radical Wave London Exciting New Period Venues Were Lot After Young People Transition Fashionable Streets Start Playing

The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement. Sabine Baring-Gould

Nature Garden Theatre Grace Made First Beauty Immediate London Charm Had First Appearance Reached She Effect Fame Child Manager May Manner Engagement Appearance Her Maria

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there. Sade Adu

People Incredible City London Comfortable How Race Really

More than 300 languages are spoken in London. Religions are freely practiced. Rich and poor live on the same street, side by side. We've actually escaped many of the most difficult problems - integration and community cohesion. Sadiq Khan

Problems Rich Community Live Difficult Side Religions London More Spoken Freely Most Practiced Integration Escaped Than Same Poor Languages Many Street Actually Cohesion

London's greatest strength is our diversity, and it's wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital's different traditions, determined to stand up to division. Sadiq Khan

Strength Wonderful Diversity Our See London Determined Division Greatest Traditions Greatest Strength Up Celebrating Different Capital Stand Stand Up

I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to bring in extra money. My parents worked hard and were able to save up and buy a home for our family. Sadiq Khan

Buy Home Family Money Parents Clothes Extra Our Able London Council Driver Were South Up Estate Grew Bus Bus Driver Worked Hard Dad Mum Bring Save

As someone who lives with adult-onset asthma, I know how bad air quality in the capital has become. I want to be the greenest mayor London has ever had - it is not acceptable that 10,000 people die in London every year because our air is so filthy. Sadiq Khan

Quality People Become Year Every Filthy Our Air Asthma Bad London Someone Had Know Acceptable Because How Die Mayor Want Capital Who Ever Lives

London made my family and myself. Sadiq Khan

Myself Family Made London

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat. Saffron Burrows

Work Buy Me Money Made Nice Living Enough Enough Money Took London Paris Weeks Picked Supposed French She Boyfriend Up Model Modeling Office Ended Flat Movies Sent Agent Then Acting Shows Street Her Two Two Weeks

I don't live in London. I live in the place that I sing about. Sam Fender

Live London About Sing Place

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. Sam Mendes

Home Enjoy Living Back Running London Just Want Theater Now

I trained as a classical actor in London for three years. We did Tennessee Williams and dialect and accent classes; they were one of my favorite things to do each week. And we'd strip it down to the phonetics and listen to the sound. It was a really interesting way to look at it all. Sam Palladio

Three Down Way Strip Phonetics Favorite Williams Favorite Things Classes London Classical Week Tennessee Tennessee Williams Look Accent Sound Dialect Were Years Trained Did Listen Interesting Interesting Way Really Each Actor Each Week Things

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London. Sam Riley

Panic London Snow Two

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