Quotes by filipino authors

PAL continues to be the country's leading airline and significant promoter of Philippine tourism. Lucio Tan

Country Airline Significant Promoter Tourism Leading Pal

Education is popular but very low standard. No wonder the Philippine economy is bankrupt. Lucio Tan

Education No Wonder Economy Very Wonder Bankrupt Low Standard Popular

I know what poverty is. Manny Pacquiao

Poverty Know

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance. Manny Pacquiao

Feelings About Performance Boxing Your

You know, America is - for me, it's the best country. Manny Pacquiao

Best Me You Country Know America

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. Manny Pacquiao

Gay People Relative Way Born Also Were Against Help Who

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it. Manny Pacquiao

You Car Drive Like Fixed Get Just Established

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy. Manny Pacquiao

Best Happy People Job Ring Make Doing Just

I come from a poor family. Manny Pacquiao

Family Come Poor

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy. Manny Pacquiao

You Fight Experience Easy Learn Boxer Boxing Scientific How

God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. Manny Pacquiao

God Man Words Obey Law First Before Considering Laws

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing. Manny Pacquiao

Be Happy Happy People Philippines Nothing Want Even

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents. Manny Pacquiao

Construction Try Clothes Sold Sewing Jobs Factory Also Make Equivalent Odd Odd Jobs Just Which Cents Worked Flowers

There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come back home. Successive governments have, in fact, been training them to export them rather than working on the economy to welcome them home. Miguel Syjuco

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

Experience Perspective Broader Immigrant Only Small Small Part Part Merely Look Itself Intended Even Filipino Specific

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in the film reads my novel and then starts discussing the novel with someone. The idea that my book can inspire another artist and be part of that other artist's work... that's the reason I write. Miguel Syjuco

Work Book Inspire Philippines Made Young Starts Other Characters About Someone Write Part Idea Read Another Reads Blog Discussing Artist Short Short Film Then Reason Who Novel Film Filmmaker

When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you. Miguel Syjuco

Day You Every Day Problems Philippines Country Skin Live Every All-Around Something Develop Like Because Around Very Confronted Thick Thick Skin

I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband. Miguel Syjuco

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! Miguel Syjuco

Love Politics Sports Philippines Country Absurd Like Homeland Spectator

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively. Miguel Syjuco