Istanbul Quotes
40 quotes by 29 authors
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I…
— Angela Carter
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In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure,…
— Lowell Thomas
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We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed…
— Steven Gerrard
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To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.
— Pierre Loti
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Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul,…
— Mary Schmich
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I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions…
— Jane Siberry
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.
— Roger Waters
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It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one…
— Orhan Pamuk
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İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of…
— Gerard De Nerval
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On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul,…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the west. The question…
— Thomas Parsons
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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia,…
— Robert MacNeil
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I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My…
— Orhan Pamuk
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He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out…
— Frederick Forsyth
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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
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I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly…
— Jasmine Guinness
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I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train…
— Loreena McKennitt
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Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks…
— Edmondo De Amicis
Who Wrote These Istanbul Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 40 Istanbul Quotes, led by these top contributors: