Yourself Tagalog Quotes & Sayings

The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again. — Robert Englund

Yo-yo (Tagalog for "come back") evolved from a Philippine hunting tool made from a softball-size stone tied to a length of plant vine or a leather thong which enabled throwers to retrieve the weapon with a simple flick of the wrist (Hoffman 1996). The modern yo-yo thus has a great deal of physics, prehistory, and hunting lore encoded in its maple, beech, or plastic form (see below, Neuro-notes III). — David B. Givens

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice. — Jessica Hagedorn The Gangster Of Love

Then again, NHEs generally meant death and mayhem, so the average person would probably run the other way even if Gray had rainbows coming out of his butt. — Jordan L. Hawk

There's more to life than love. — Ramon Bautista

For her, this was one of the happiest things on earth--to be in love with someone who is more in love with you. — Marione Ashley

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given. — Tony Evans

Tagalog sounds like boiling water. — Jim Paredes

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away. — Hilary Mantel

Summoned or not, the god will come. — Carl Jung

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization. — Yitzhak Shamir

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite. — A.S. Byatt

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese. — F. Sionil Jose

What do you want, Alvaro?
- Kristine
Ikaw. Marry me.
- Alvaro — Martha Cecilia

My tongue was handed down to me
by datus and katipuneros. The truth is
my mouth is a battlefield that
you wouldn't know how to fight in. — Danabelle Gutierrez

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains. — Sharyn McCrumb

In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right? — Jose Antonio Vargas

We will love her, protect her, all of us
Bisaya, Tagalog, Ilokano, so many islands, so many tribes
because if we act as one, we will be strong and so will she be. Alone you will fall prey to every marauder that passes by. I am not asking that you love Filipinas. I am asking that you do what is right, what is duty ...
-The Cripple — F. Sionil Jose

At school, everything feels weird. No one looks at me or pays attention to me, no one says hi, no one asks how I am feeling, and everyone is so quite. It's like I don't even exist. — Abraham M. Alghanem

My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English - I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn't want to speak anything but English. — Reggie Lee

I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again.
- Kristine — Martha Cecilia

No type of therapy compares to accomplishing heavy and intimidating goals. — Miriam Khalladi

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men. — H.L. Mencken

I speak Cantonese, and I speak Tagalog. — Reggie Lee

Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said. — Ben Aaronovitch