Pastoral Resources

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

London is a roost for every bird.

London is a modern Babylon.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!