If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I love visiting churches and I think I've visited every mosque in Istanbul. — Janhvi Kapoor Copy Share Image
Coming to a city like Istanbul, one of the best in the world. It was easy. — Victor Osimhen Copy Share Image
Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Had I been told Istanbul used to be a poorer, smaller and happier city, I might not have believed it, but that’s… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from… — Steven Gerrard Copy Share Image
The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There are such beautiful locations outside India, and the experience of shooting in Istanbul was awesome. — Sanjeeda Sheikh Copy Share Image
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I left New York after my mother died and, rather aimlessly, had settled in Istanbul for a change of scene. It was… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the… — Thomas Parsons Copy Share Image
Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Istanbul is divided by time, not space. The first Istanbul is the Istanbul of the past. A long time ago, during the… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
Istanbul and the western and southern seaboards are very Europeanized. But then you have the Kurdish areas, in the southeast. That's Turkey's… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“It was all because of the traffic, she would later reassure herself. Rumbling, roaring, metal clanking against metal like the cries of… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Istanbul is one of the most incredible cities in the world, and a must - see as much as London, Paris, or… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
“..These exhibitions, and the stories behind them, should also in due course have their own catalogs and novels. As visitors admire the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not that she had been to Cairo or Delhi. But, like many other Istanbulites, Peri held a firm belief that her city… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“It happened all the time in this city that encompassed seven hills, two continents, three seas and fifteen million mouths. It happened… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
