Manila City Quotes

#1. I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

Jo Brand

#2. Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

June Singer

#3. He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

Robin Hobb

#4. Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#5. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

Prince Charles

#6. Intramuros! The old Manila. The original Manila. The Noble and Ever Loyal City ...

Nick Joaquin

#7. There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

Michel Foucault

#8. If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

Frederick Lenz

#9. 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,

Jessica Hagedorn

#10. Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

John Steinbeck

#11. One day, you will see that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong.

Ally Carter

#12. We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.

Cornel West

#13. You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

Carol Friedman