#london

You know, I have guys that are almost stalkers... it is very strange. I had this one guy that e-mailed me off my site, and thought we were boyfriend and girlfriend. He then came to my house in London, I do not know how he found it. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#boyfriend #came #found #girlfriend #guy

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, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.' ↗

— James Buchan

#book #boomers #brown #commissioned #dubbed

London is the clearing-house of the world. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

#world

Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay. ↗

— David Mitchell

#names #sex #age

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off. ↗

— Alan Davies

#around #bottom #bumps #car #drive

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner. ↗

— Niall Horan

#around #because #corner #get #go

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#city #felt #flames #houses #london

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all. ↗

— Samantha Mumba

#apartment #around #away #based #because

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#created #fact #hitler #in fact #into

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#charles #corner #dickens #east #end