Ilustrado Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

Alafair Burke

#5. In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

Barbara Jordan

#6. You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day.

Julian McMahon

#7. If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

Billy Corgan

#8. 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

#9. To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Fred Perry

#10. 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

#11. We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#12. And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

John Dramani Mahama

#13. You're
swimming so hard in this ocean.
Don't you know
if you float,
it will always hold you up?

Terra Elan McVoy

#14. Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!

William Ross Wallace

#15. Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Hosea Ballou