Change Quote by Charles Emmerson

“I’m as constant as Constantinople. Now that’s some Istanbul shit.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Here I come, Constantinople”

— The Residents

“He had imagined Constantinople, had wanted it for Mehmed. It had been simple and straightforward. But now he knew the true cost of things,…

— Kiersten White

“The Ottoman Turks were about to capture Constantinople, unleashing on Italy a migration of fleeing scholars with bundles of manuscripts containing the ancient wisdom…

— Walter Isaacson

“In those girls I found my Rome, my Paris, my Constantinople.”

— George Saunders

“Like most Istanbul Turks I had little interest in Byzantium as a child. I associated the word with spooky, bearded, black-robed Greek Orthodox priests,…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Had I been told Istanbul used to be a poorer, smaller and happier city, I might not have believed it, but that’s what my…

— Orhan Pamuk

“For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act…

— Thomas Pynchon

When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the people, with…

— Bettany Hughes

“It was all because of the traffic, she would later reassure herself. Rumbling, roaring, metal clanking against metal like the cries of a thousand…

— Elif Shafak

“The capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, still carried the name given to it in the year 330, when it became the imperial capital…

— Louis Farshee

“The old was once new and the new will soon become old too. Let's not resist the passage of time and change.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo