On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box – the result of mixing Lloyd’s of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. – Cecil Beaton
I was a big Who fan when I was 15, 16 years old, and I used to go watch them play at the Marquee Club in London as often as I could. – Chris Squire
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it’s far from representative of what life in England is actually about. – Alan Moore
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. – Ben Okri
You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield. – Arthur L. Herman
Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the ‘Times of London’ to write a weekly ‘cheer-up’ article in 1937. – Alistair Horne
I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It’s a lovely part of the world. – Alexander Hanson
I think what’s going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it. – Adam Ant
I’ve done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege. – Boris Johnson
When I arrived, I didn’t understand London customers perfectly, but we’ve developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I’m in harmony with London. – Alain Ducasse
I’m made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn’t I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else? – Boris Johnson
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics. – Boris Johnson
I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in. – Asafa Powell
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn’t understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. – Billy Bragg
I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot. – Brian Grazer
I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul’s School. From there, I moved to London. – Alexis Denisof
When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn’t know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I’m fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn’t feel right to me. Until I met Roy. – Brad Pitt
I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That’s like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we’re called ‘Jews’? Because we come from Judea. – Benjamin Netanyahu
My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini. – Christopher Lee
The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year’s Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we’d had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we’d ever seen. – Alan Davies
I think that London is very much like that. I find there’s humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it’s a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive. – Colin Firth
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
I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho. – Alice Temperley
In London, people can be so… well, it’s not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don’t make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement. – Carey Mulligan