London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty. . . it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London
I record at the same place [Toe Rag or FatSounds Studios in London], with the same people [Liam Watson at Toe Rag and Ed Deegan at Fatsounds], every time. It makes it effortless, and another reason for the vast output when I do go in and record stuff.
I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.
I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.
Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.
I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
I love the free spirit in London.
I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to. . . to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.
In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.
Gentlemen never wear brown in London.
Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city