The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and… — Jake Busey Copy Share Image
I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm. — David Keith Copy Share Image
Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants. — Sharat Saxena Copy Share Image
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not,… — Charles Comiskey Copy Share Image
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
