Best Manila Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“We had everything before us, we had nothing before us, according to Charles Dickens in whose nest of words I grew up, and so, as rain filled the drains, flooded the streets, inundated the city, my great-great-great-great-grandmother and her community were driven skyward, gasping for air from the underworld.”

Short Story Philippines Filipino Speculative Fiction Diaspora Manila Fable The Nameless

Book:Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

“Like flowers bursting out of buds, more of life returns and I believe more danger awaits us. But such is the nature of our life. Danger is nothing new to us. It’s a part of what we face in the day-to-day, no stranger than eating or mating or being born.”

Fiction Short Story Apocalypse End Of The World San Francisco Philippines Diaspora Manila The Nameless

Book:Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

“If I were poor, I’d have more use in this world.”

Romance Fiction Short Story Berlin Lgbtqia Philippines Filipino Diaspora Manila On A Sunday In August

Book:Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

“I hate it when they mistake poverty for lack of character.”

Romance Fiction Short Story Berlin Lgbtqia Philippines Filipino Diaspora Manila On A Sunday In August

Book:Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

“All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There's nothing like it in the world, and they know it.”

Knows World Cities Growing Crazy Connections Fearless Elsewhere Fabulous Abiding Philippines Diaspora Manila Deep Connections Abiding Love

Author:Jessica Hagedorn

“As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.”

Action Past President Party Regret Members Hotel Officers Saddened Manila Liberal Party

Author:Florencio Abad

“The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.”

People Want Doe Ends Government Levels Doors Bureaucrats Closed Doors Doorstep Manila Metro

Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.”

Men America Film White Saws Fronts Versions Dirty Shops Airports Slums Grease Manila Lounging

Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.”

Men Littles Stories Talking Conversation Rain Towns Ancient Pockets Old Man Flood Telling Stories Manila

Author:John Grisham

“Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.”

Sides Poor Cities Rich Constant Extremes Reminders Manila

Author:Arlene J. Chai

“Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.”

Behinds Customers Hiding Manila Call Center

Author:Timothy Noah

“I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.”

Years Self Stories Used Week Six Letters Seven Rejection Short Story Mail Seven Years Seals Envelopes Manila Boomerang Rejection Letters

Author:Jess Walter

“I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!”

World Mean Band Musical Philippines Filipino Manila

Author:June Millington

“Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.”

Kind Book Feelings Form Cities Written London Invisible Ghost Great Cities Manila Jakarta

Author:Teju Cole

“The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.”

People World Real Lasts Crime Development Rate Starting Golden Eras Lowest Philippines Marcos Manila Crime Rates

Author:Imelda Marcos

“Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.”

Helping Problem Names Water Four Serious Please Flying Ships Canada Flags Tigers Appreciated Advise July Pacific Cargo Manila Lifeboats Bengal Tigers

Book:Life of Pi - CANCELED

Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED

“And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.”

Way Writing Reason Eye Together Left Saws Train Saint Lifts Remarkable Delicate Envelopes Overhead Racks Manila

Book:Nine Horses

Source: Nine Horses

“It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.”

Boxing Killers Thrillers Gorillas Manila Famous Boxer Great Boxing

Author:Muhammad Ali

“For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

“I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.”

Ifs Mind Believe States Spiritual I Believe Easy Cities Divine Reflection Extremes Intense Dirty State Of Mind Contrast Gorgeous Chaotic Personal Experiences Manila

Author:Carlos Celdran

“Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!””

“You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?”

Doe Memories Cities Losing Metaphor Shopping Cradle Malls Cathedrals Graveyard Unwritten Mecca Manila

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure.”

Ifs Lucky So Lucky Manila Azure

Author:Paris Hilton

“And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!”

Ifs Night Worry Thrown Jail Philippines Bail Beyonce Sold Out Manila

Author:Lady Gaga

“My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would happen unless I get out and make it happen. Then, as if handling me the keys to the jet pack, my dad bought me a typewriter and a taped message to the inside of its case: "Son - the world is waiting to hear from you".”

Ifs World Art Happens School Waiting Cases Son Keys Cold Dad Messages Letters My Dad Rejection Fragile Packs Fists Jet Make It Happen Typewriters Art School Manila Rejection Letters

Author:Grant Morrison

“Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.”

People Faces Black Poverty Theory Adversity Institutions Data Statistics Manila Folders Black Face

Book:RFK: A Memoir

Source: RFK: A Memoir