Bosporus Quotes

#1. Nothing has more power to transform than awareness. When you become complete inside yourself, the worst conditions don't matter.

Deepak Chopra

#2. Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Robert Musil

#3. Twins for help during the holidays.

R.K. Davenport

#4. He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Stephen Leacock

#5. I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

Curtis Jackson

#7. Middle-aged memory [is] an instrument of torture: you reach for the fruit of memory and it vanishes, to appear when you no longer want it.

Castle Freeman Jr.

#8. We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

Jay Asher

#9. There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures ... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.

John Loengard