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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge… — Angela Carter 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
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
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
“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
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the… — Tzvetan Todorov 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
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
“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
Istanbul is an unbelievable city, just really beautiful and the people are really, really nice. — Jordan Larson Copy Share Image
The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my… — Shaan Copy Share Image
“There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“And the fog. The purple fog, blue fog and white fog. Film noir fog. How I love the sheer romance of it;… — Caroline Eden Copy Share Image
The first time I was teargassed, in Istanbul, Turkey, I thought I was going to die. Overwhelming pain flooded my eyes, nose,… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus. — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me. — Pierre Loti 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
Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West. — Susan Moody Copy Share Image
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones.… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
