Words matter. These are the best Manila Quotes from famous people such as Timothy Noah, Imelda Marcos, Clifton Fadiman, Andrew Tan, Pico Iyer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn’t. It’s just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who’s never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.
Regional developers have a clear head start in their home communities. They have been there longer and understand their market. As a result, these markets are, in fact, more competitive than those in Manila.
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy’s screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy’s chatting about Alexander the Great. I’m after pulling in, whether it’s in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.
Drag Race’ was, like, my outlet and finally being able to see myself in television and that was through Manila Luzon, who was a ‘Drag Race’ contestant. Manila was the first Asian queer person that I ever saw on mainstream media and ‘Drag Race’ really did that for me.
I think that Manila is underrated in terms of food in the Philippines.
There is so much more to the Philippines than just Manila. The beauty is in the neighboring islands.
After living a decade in Jakarta, I chose. I chose Manila, the Philippines, for better or worse.
I used to roller skate a lot in my youth on Taft Avenue, Manila. That is the reason there is always a skating area in all my SM malls. I want more people to share my love for skating.
If you’re having a bad day, or you’re having a bad career, go to Manila. They’ll bring your spirits up.
Next to my family in Manila, Journey is my family.
I’m part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother’s side it’s more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father’s side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I’m a hybrid.
Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody’s out to get the better of you.
