Istanbulite Quotes & Sayings

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. — Stephen Curry

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana

From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans. — Robin Williams

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air — Francis Schaeffer

Why Jackie?" Robert said. I was glad to see he had already moved on to his next neurotic worry. "Why does she get on camera? I mean, I can laugh harder than she can any day. — Jeff Lindsay

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life. — Vaslav Nijinsky

All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air. — Jerry Coleman

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall. — Ken Jennings

Employees are shielded from being healthcare consumers because they rely on their
employers' priorities and judgment instead of their own to select insurance. — Archelle Georgiou

The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman! — Elif Shafak

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked. — Andy Borowitz

But in the years to come, as Muslim prestige and learning sank, and Hindu confidence, wealth, education and power increased, Hindus and Muslims would grow gradually apart, as British policies of divide and rule found willing collaborators among the chauvinists of both faiths. The rip in the closely woven fabric of Delhi's composite culture, opened in 1857, slowly widened into a great gash, and at Partition in 1947 finally broke in two. As the Indian Muslim elite emigrated en masse to Pakistan, the time would soon come when it would be almost impossible to imagine that Hindu sepoys could ever have rallied to the Red Fort and the standard of a Muslim emperor, joining with their Muslim brothers in an attempt to revive the Mughal Empire. — William Dalrymple

The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you motivate them to acquire it for themselves. This is the essence of effective copywriting. — Richard Bayan

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. — Clay Shirky

It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time ... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary. — Chris Squire