Istanbul Turkey Quotes

#1. 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 the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#2. Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

Maurice Allais

#3. The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Fool! You may hate me ... But I ... I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.

Rumiko Takahashi

#7. I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.

Henri Matisse

#8. From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed to him a town the centuries had so drenched in blood and violence that, when daylight went out, the ghosts of its dead were its only population.

Ian Fleming

#9. I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

Roger Moore

#10. Such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Fanny Burney

#11. National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy.

Ahmet Rasim