Quotes About London Architecture

#1. You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

Prince

#2. Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again.

Emma Jane Unsworth

#3. A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.

David Gill

#4. Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

Mary Roach

#5. London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

G-Eazy

#6. I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

David Harewood

#7. The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

Richard Flanagan

#8. We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves.

Shakti Gawain

#9. We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

Raymond Khoury

#10. To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Dirk Benedict

#11. How often is it the case that, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible realities, we find ourselves calm, and evenly coldly self-possessed, amid circumstances which it would have been a delirium of joy or agony to anticipate!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#12. I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

Imogen Poots

#13. London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Renzo Piano

#14. In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Euripides

#15. Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Anna Deavere Smith

#16. One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

Ben Aaronovitch

#17. One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

Andre Leon Talley

#18. Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

Dan Brown

#19. The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

Jerry Moss

#20. Before you speak, make certain you have something worthwhile to say.

Groucho Marx

#21. I don't know what London's coming to - the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Noel Coward

#22. I'm convinced that empathy is more powerful than hate and that our lives should be dedicated to making it go viral.

Zak Ebrahim

#23. When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Roman Coppola

#24. In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

Philip Treacy

#25. There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

Charlie Cox

#26. As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Gautama Buddha