#london

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#i #london #miss #place #sometimes

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#bible #brought #gentleman #had #his

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#although #books #dirty #ever #everything

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#holes #i #london #same #suppose

In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments of the stories and putting them in an immersive environment. It is taking the theme park experience to a new level.' And of course I wish Thierry and his colleagues every possible luck, and I am sure it will be wonderful. But I cannot conceal my feelings; and the more I think of those millions of beaming kids waving their wands and scampering the Styrofoam turrets of Hogwartse_STmk, and the more I think of those millions of poor put-upon parents who must now pay to fly to Orlando and pay to buy wizard hats and wizard cloaks and wizard burgers washed down with wizard meade_STmk, the more I grind my teeth in jealous irritation. Because the fact is that Harry Potter is not American. He is British. Where is Diagon Alley, where they buy wands and stuff? It is in London, and if you want to get into the Ministry of Magic you disappear down a London telephone box. The train for Hogwarts goes from King's Cross, not Grand Central Station, and what is Harry Potter all about? It is about the ritual and intrigue and dorm-feast excitement of a British boarding school of a kind that you just don't find in America. Hogwarts is a place where children occasionally get cross with each other—not 'mad'—and where the situation is usually saved by a good old British sense of HUMOUR. WITH A U. RIGHT? NOT HUMOR. GOTTIT? ↗

— Boris Johnson

#boarding-school #britain #britishism #diagon-alley #grand-central

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#first #home #i #london #myself

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#creator #fantastic #going #jobs #london

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

— Boris Johnson

#london #mayor #olympics #particularly #taxing

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#broken #games #going #hope #i

The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#chunk #close #daughter #family #film