Top 17 Ilustrado Miguel Syjuco Quotes
#1. Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we'll be.
Miguel Syjuco
#2. O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#3. If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I'd be free right now. Probably even doing some real job," she sneered.
Alexandra Engellmann
#4. I am and will always be a HUGE Star Wars Geek and wanted to study film making. I really am not a fan of writing- I prefer storytelling and rather jump to storyboards to relay my vision then a lot of wordy words.
Holly Golightly
#5. The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.
Miguel Syjuco
#6. Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.
Alain De Botton
#7. I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.
Antony Armstrong-Jones
#8. I'm making this confession without hope for absolution.
One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so.
Miguel Syjuco
#9. With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.
Miguel Syjuco
#10. If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. - REVELATION
J.D. Robb
#12. I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
Ryan Gosling
#13. Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Heber J. Grant
#14. Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'
Jeff Jordan
#15. I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.
Lenny Abrahamson
#17. I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'
Miguel Syjuco
