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. – James Nasmyth
Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don’t fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home. – Kenny Marchant
London is very fashion-forward. Everyone’s very stylish, and the designers are great. It’s very my style, grungy and feminine – a bit of everything. – Jessica Hart
We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can’t have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness. – Linda McCartney
I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits. – Leon Max
I’ve had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I’ve shot a few movies there before. One of them was Neil Simon’s ‘London Suite,’ which was based on his play. I also shot a film in Dublin, a little film with Bernadette Peters, called ‘Bobbie’s Girl.’ – Jonathan Silverman
In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves. – Manolo Blahnik
I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I’m told I have a country accent. – Jessica Raine
Remember, the early ’60s in London was something – which must have been like Berlin in the ’30s when the arts flourished. You didn’t have the differences in class, and so on. – Ken Adam
L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it’s always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can’t go wrong with a trench coat! – Jessica Lowndes
There’s a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it’s always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there’s always been this tension. – King Krule
Everything is global now. It’s not London, it’s not Spain, it’s not Italy – everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess. – Manolo Blahnik
There wasn’t very much going on in London about five years ago, and I just took a ticket on spec and went to Los Angeles. I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for ‘Battlestar.’ – James Callis
I raced in London in the 2012 Olympics, and it was incredible to be a part of, with half a million people watching and then later seeing kids going back to cycle. – Jonathan Brownlee
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. – Leslie Cockburn
I can’t get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city. – Jessica Lowndes
I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years. – Josh Dallas
I’d love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don’t have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum. – Jean Pigozzi
If I’m playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under. – Laura Mvula
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you’re on your own because I’m not traipsing around London ever again like that. It’s a nightmare. – Kate Moss
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London. – Leslie Caron
I’ve travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved. – Larry Hagman
In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared. – John Mica