London Metropolis Quotes

#1. Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so people come up with all sorts of ways to make a living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. London opens to you like a novel itself. [ ... ] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

Anna Quindlen

#3. We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

Dan Rather

#4. London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Henry James

#5. As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Adolf Hitler

#6. It is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.

Alan W. Watts

#7. The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

Henry Mayhew

#8. The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#9. When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.

John Seabrook

#11. The future begins today.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#12. It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.

Anna Quindlen

#13. I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

Nathan Lane

#14. You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Bobby Jindal

#15. Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#16. Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.
And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

Anna Quindlen

#17. Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.

Krista Ritchie

#18. Sometimes life simply doesn't work in our favor, for a multitude of reasons. But if we keep investing, with faith, in our future, when the time comes, when the winds blow favorably in our direction, our speed is much faster than normal.

Robin Sacredfire

#19. I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Robert Kiyosaki

#20. I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters

John Green

#21. The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

Rumi