"You canâ€™t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. Iâ€™m hardly speaking in metaphor. Itâ€™s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?"

-- Miguel Syjuco

#Memories Quotes #Cities Quotes #Shopping Quotes

“Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.”
“In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the people who run them are making millions. There should be no relationship between ex-politicians and them, like John Reid and Malcolm Rifkind, who are now associated with contracting companies having been ministers of defence. That's unacceptable.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“If he's the king, I'm the prince.”
“To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.”

Source : "Angela Ahrendts: The Burberry CEO who reinvented a heritage brand for the digital age" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2013.
“Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.”
“The game is meant to be fun.”
“The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed...”

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