If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Coming to a city like Istanbul, one of the best in the world. It was easy. — Victor Osimhen Copy Share Image
I love visiting churches and I think I've visited every mosque in Istanbul. — Janhvi Kapoor Copy Share Image
Istanbul is an unbelievable city, just really beautiful and the people are really, really nice. — Jordan Larson Copy Share Image
I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing. — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
The coffee's good in Italy. It's good in Spain. It's good in Istanbul. The coffee's not so good in America. — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he… — Lowell Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
“As in many other cities, money no longer had any value in Istanbul. At the time I returned from the East, bakeries… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
“It had just hit her why and how people could fall in love with Istanbul, in spite of all the sorrow it… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Peri disliked these dinner parties, which went on late into the night and often left her with a migraine the next day.… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Mevlut had been in Istanbul for twenty years. It was sad to see the old face of the city as he had… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of cities in the world: those that reassure their residents that tomorrow and the day after, and the… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“The capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, still carried the name given to it in the year 330, when it became the… — Louis Farshee 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
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
When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux 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
“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
“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
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
