London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail. – Adam Schlesinger
Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had ‘Time Out’ on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon. – Bradley Wiggins
Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it. – Bill Gates
Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn’t happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders – but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening. – Arthur L. Herman
In 2008, Pistorius was the only guy who could run under 22 seconds at 200 m. So I said I would run as fast as that in London. I practised; I trained. – Alan Oliveira
I don’t drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off. – Alan Davies
Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins. – Boris Johnson
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I’m still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel. – Anthony Burgess
I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go. – Alison Owen
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. – Antony Beevor
I’ve made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I’d love to do theater. – Brenda Blethyn
I think if you live in London, it’s such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it’s totally the opposite. – Alex Kingston
I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it’s slightly fictional. – Clive Anderson
I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army. – Falk Hentschel
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London. – Naftali Bennett
My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London. – Natascha McElhone
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody. – Florence Welch
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. – Phil Collins
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. – George Bernard Shaw
‘Kraken’ is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it’s more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It’s London as a kind of fantasy kingdom. – China Mieville
One of my favourite places is Hampstead Heath. When I first moved to London, I lived in Highgate, and I would walk on the Heath at the weekends and go to the Kenwood House coffee shop. – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate. – Fleur East
I’m in love with London. English boys are great. I completely fell in love with it over there. – Evan Rachel Wood