Quotes About London Buildings

#1. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be.

Charles Dickens

#2. In London, like in conches, Mr. MacDowell or MacDowness, time could be seen. Time was stamped in stone, in iron and in marble. And it was not only the buildings; people also occupied a place in the stratified flow of decades and centuries.

Sylvia Iparraguirre

#3. Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.

Kate Williams

#4. If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.'

Jud Wilhite

#5. This is boring, my brain said; nothing to see here. Let's do something else. Let's start a fire.

Robert Brockway

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

Noel Coward

#7. I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

Kate Zambreno

#8. What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.

David Morse

#9. The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Alan Davies

#10. I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#11. Looked at from above, west London isn't so much a city as a forest with buildings.

Bill Bryson

#12. I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

Abbi Jacobson

#13. 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

#14. Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because they're tired of repeating those things.

Kim A-joong

#15. If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.

Robert Pattinson

#16. Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights bloom like a sea of candles. Even this rain will never put them all out.

John Owen Theobald