Quotes
"Pray for me, and if some of
you (reporters) can’t pray
because you are not believers, send me good vibrations.”
Pope Francis, The Economic Times,
June 9, 2015
"I think the important issue
was not that a novel was
forced off the syllabus but that
a university was bullied and
denied the right to decide,
through due departmental
processes, what could be
taught in its courses.”
Rohinton Mistry, novelist, on his book
being dropped from the Bombay
University English syllabus, The Times
of India, January 4, 2015
"Those blacks and greys are
splendid; I think peacocks are over-rated, just too much color. Crows have character. They
always seem to be looking you
in the eye, as if assessing you.”
Mehlli Gobhai, artist, Mint, June 6, 2015
"The original design hasn’t changed since Wibs’ inception. Revamping the packaging doesn’t help you penetrate the market. Maintaining product quality does.”
Hoshang Irani, co-owner, Wibs,
DNA, January 11, 2015
"Before this age, you could
joke about religion.”
George Wolinski, 80-year-old Charlie
Hebdo cartoonist gunned down in
Paris by terrorists, quoted by columnist
Anil Dharker, Asian Age, January 12, 2015
"Our team has studied that stress plays a very important role in reproductive failure. Women or couples who are happy and look at the positive side have a much better response to treatment.”
Dr Firuza Parikh, director, Department of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics,
Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre,
DNA, February 21, 2015
Married three times and, while thinking about fitting a new relationship into his schedule, he asks: "How much time does a woman want a week? Maybe 10 hours?”
Elon Musk, entrepreneur, inventor and
engineer, force behind Tesla, SpaceX
and SolarCity, Mint, May 15, 2015
"Good news can always wait,
but when you share bad news,
you are multiplying the trust
factor with your partners.”
Ronnie Screwvala, entrepreneur
and author, DNA, April 5, 2015
"And please don’t even
quote that UN report on 75% of married women here being routinely raped by their husbands. They should be thankful someone married them in the first place.”
Shinie Antony, columnist, referring to
marital rape not being considered a crime in India, The Economic Times, May 2, 2015
"If people end up saying, ‘It is a brilliant idea for a market like
India,’ then you may want to
re-think on how to make it
executable universally.”
Jasmin Sohrabji, chief executive officer, South East Asia and India, Omnicom Media Group, The Economic Times, April 8, 2015
"Everyone is an artist, but not
everyone should exhibit.”
Tim Lindsay, chief executive, D&AD,
quoted by Sir John Hegarty, advertising executive and founder of Bartle Bogle
Hegarty, Campaign India, May 1, 2015
"She started smoking as a social habit as her friends used to smoke. She doesn’t remember when she turned into a chain smoker.”
Tina Mistry on her film historian mother Mani, DNA, May 31, 2015
"My daughters and nieces would, I know, rather join ISIS in Syria than become Parsi baby-making machines like my poor great-grandmother (who had 17 children).”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer,
Hamazor, issue 2, 2015
"In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations,
and epochs it is the rule.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, quoted in The Free Dictionary.com
"The sad reality today is, hardly anyone follows traffic rules/laws; hardly anybody obeys signals. People cut lanes dangerously and wrongly, chat on cellphones while driving/walking on roads, (disregard) no-entry, drive on the wrong side, overtake from the wrong side, drive/park on pavements, etc...
Pedestrians, too, transgress blatantly and nonchalantly.”
Armin Wandrewala, lawyer and civic
activist, on deaths due to rash and
drunken driving, Mid-Day, June 11, 2015
"Research by Harvard Business School’s Shikhar Ghosh, published in a Harvard Business Review article in 2013, found that 75%
of all start-ups fail.”
Rishikesha T. Krishnan, director and
professor, strategic management, at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, Mint, June 8, 2015
"I am aware of the presence of some recalcitrant publishers and their marketing whiz kids who believe that the bottom line of a newspaper must be measured only in terms of numbers, and not in terms of perception and credibility.”
Ravindra Kumar, president, The Indian Newspaper Society, in his presidential address on January 2, 2015
"Jyotish is a science to make calculations lakhs of years in advance. All other sciences have been dwarfed by our ancient astrologers. Astrology is the number one science for the entire world. We should promote the science... I want to say that astrology is the topmost science in the world.”
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Bharatiya
Janata Party Member of Parliament and
former Uttarakhand chief minister, The Indian Express, December 4, 2014