Defensor Santiago Famous Quotes

Life is not a race among the vain. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

Await occasions and never hurry. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.' ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I eat death threats for breakfast! ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I guess it's the expectation that something will happen - something bright and shimmering, that has touched you life before, and will descend on you again, when you turn a corner. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

Dare beyond your strength, hazard beyond your judgment, and in extremities, proceed in excellent hope. Bare the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

In my approaching old age, I am now supposed to share with you what life has taught me, and in the end to encapsulate for you what is the meaning of life. From where I am now, I find that these conundrums are easily answered. First, life teaches us that, whether we perceive it as predestined or as random, it is beyond any person's control. Second, there is no template for the meaning of life. Instead, the meaning of life is what you choose to make it mean. In making your choice, when you reach my age, your journey becomes an affirmation of the warning that life is a consequence of our moral choices. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

Just because your head knows something it does not mean that your heart agrees. ~ Ale Meza-Santiago

Dream make us reach the sky although we have no wings ~ Rifku Santiago

Giving up is only an option when you are dead! ~ S.B. Santiago

The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

We never really wanted to play in California. ~ Santiago Durango

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown? ~ Esmeralda Santiago

When you got no wheels you're no place in L. A. ~ Danny Santiago

I am always searching for more light and space. ~ Santiago Calatrava

The mediocre can be educated; geniuses educate themselves. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Family is everything....Loyalty is priceless ~ Danielle Santiago

Not everything is a love story. ~ Ale Meza-Santiago

Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation. ~ Santiago Durango

Make this day a tree
leaning over the river eternity
and fuss about in its branches. ~ Jimmy Santiago Baca

...and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play. ~ Santiago Durango

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything. ~ Santiago Durango

How can we help my kids step into the shoes of another child? ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Not knowing is another form of torture. ~ Ale Meza-Santiago

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx. ~ Ray Santiago

And there was no money in Chicago for a band. ~ Santiago Durango

I used to think all drunks were idiots, but I don't anymore; I've changed my mind about idiots. ~ Santiago Leganes Gomez

There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything. ~ Santiago Durango

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. ~ Joey Santiago

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. ~ Joey Santiago

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one. ~ Joey Santiago

I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts. ~ Santiago Cabrera

We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He did. ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally. ~ Santiago Cabrera

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I can hardly understand the Australian accent. ~ Joey Santiago

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever. ~ Santiago Durango

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has. ~ Joey Santiago

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

And the art was in every corner and wall ... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember ... ~ Santiago Martinez Delgado

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude. ~ Santiago Cabrera

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child. ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman. ~ Jimmy Santiago Baca

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. ~ Joey Santiago

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again. ~ Jimmy Santiago Baca

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorably. ~ Santiago Roncagliolo

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ~ Van Morrison

What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character! ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

We have been taught to believe that "heaven" is above us, but I believe it is all around us. The material world is solid, the spirit world is ethereal (invisible ~ Estella Santiago

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. ~ Santiago Calatrava

If we work together, we can do everything, if we just watch each other, we can do nothing ~ John Paul Santiago

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang. ~ Ray Santiago

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there. ~ Santiago Durango

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children. ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension. ~ Santiago Calatrava

I don't really watch what I eat. I love sitting around with friends and eating loads and drinking loads for hours. Maybe when I'm 40 I'll worry about my diet. ~ Santiago Cabrera

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine. ~ Santiago Durango

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community. ~ Santiago Calatrava

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together. ~ Santiago Durango

We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender. ~ Santiago Calatrava

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. ~ Bo Burnham

Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity. ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot. ~ Edwin Mullins

Hey," said a soft voice.
Emma turned to see a boy with wavy hair and light brown skin looking at them with a mixture of annoyance and - no, it was mostly just annoyance.
"Raphael Santiago?" she said. ~ Cassandra Clare

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. ~ Peter Carey

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. ~ Dallas Clayton

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame. ~ Johnathon Schaech

One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

It is strange to see how the populace, which nourishes its imagination with tales of witches or saints, mysterious events and extraordinary occurrences, disdains the world around it as commonplace, monotonous and prosaic, without suspecting that at bottom it is all secret, mystery, and marvel. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it. ~ Joey Santiago

Television is a different challenge; it is not a stage. But each opportunity that I have to learn I learn, and I take the opportunity to work. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't. ~ Trey Parker

Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you."
"I doubt it. ~ Madeline Miller

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. ~ Noomi Rapace