Family Quote by Arnel Pineda

I may have done an every-night gig in Hong Kong because I was there for almost 16 years, and in Manila, Philippines, I did…

— Arnel Pineda

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

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

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

— Timothy Noah

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

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

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

— Brigitte Nielsen

“I tried not to dwell on the comparison; it was one thing to accept that New York was more wealthy than Lahore, but quite…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

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

— Muhammad Ali

“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

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

— June Millington