#london

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#about #being #brought #city #commitment

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#bike #biking #cycle #got #i

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#american #because #british #eight #i

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#areas #attacks #england #how #just

Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#hope #how #i #i hope that #legs

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#before #big #dance #entire #films

Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city. ↗

— Geoff Nicholson

#art

If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet ↗

— Jess Walter

#london #beauty

The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful re-invasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare. (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#change

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. ↗

— George Orwell

#freedom #george-orwell #money #poverty #freedom