Notable Turkish Writers Quotes & Sayings

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. — Agatha Christie

Take eloquence and wring its neck. — Paul Verlaine

The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If I have makeup, I use a cleanser, but otherwise, I just use a hot cloth at the end of the day to keep moisture in my skin without stripping it off. I do splurge on La Mer, but other than that, I use just use Nivea from the drugstore! — Jane Kaczmarek

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising. — Katharine Graham

Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She said. Mrs. Comstock did not reply. She watched the girl follow the long walk to the gate and go from sight on the road, in the bright sunshine — Gene Stratton-Porter

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect. — Rebecca Stead

It's what they've got planned for this whole town, a big Disneyland imitation of itself. Wholesome family fun, kiddies in the casinos, Go Fish with a table limit of ten cents, Pat Boone for a headliner, nonunion actors playing funny mafiosi, driving funny old-fashioned cars, making believe rub each other out, blam, blam, ha, ha, ha. LasfuckinVegasland. — Thomas Pynchon

If you love the life very much, you will see that everything will be shining, everything will be sparkling! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and 'conversions' on both sides of her line to make me one of those many mischling hybrids who are to be found distributed all over the known world. And, as someone who doesn't really believe that the human species is subdivided by 'race,' let alone that a nation or nationality can be defined by its religion, why should I not let the whole question slide away from me? Why - and then I'll stop asking rhetorical questions - did I at some point resolve that, in whatever tone of voice I was asked 'Are you a Jew?' I would never hear myself deny it? — Christopher Hitchens

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America. — Peter Coyote