I tried not to dwell on the comparison; it was one thing…

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral,…

— Miguel Syjuco

I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

— John Gokongwei

The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and…

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in…

— John Grisham

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

— Muhammad Ali

Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta,…

— Teju Cole

Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.

— Brigitte Nielsen

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…

— Jessica Hagedorn

Next to my family in Manila, Journey is my family.

— Arnel Pineda

If you're having a bad day, or you're having a bad career, go to Manila. They'll bring your spirits up.

— Gilbert Arenas

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

— Timothy Noah

I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs.…

— Jess Walter

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there…

— Arlene J. Chai

As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members…

— Florencio Abad