Quotes

"From quantity comes quality. The only way forward is to spread the game. If the game remains confined to a few states, Indian football will remain stagnant.”

Novy Kapadia, football writer and
commentator, The Times of India,
October 23, 2017

"There are two types of people
in this world, good and bad.
The good sleep better, but the
bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

Woody Allen, actor/director, quoted by
Phil Shroff in From Dreams to Reality

"I had been invited to a wedding and my husband accompanied me. He got a very cold reception there. He was treated like an outsider.
A few people didn’t shake his
hand when I introduced him to them, others just looked the other way. It was very strange.”

Dilshad Master Kumar on introducing
her non-Parsi husband to friends in
Bangalore in 1997, The Indian Express, October 22, 2017

"In the 10 years that we have ahead of us, we may well see diseases that were terminal being treatable instead, and much of the work will be done in India.”

Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts,
The Economic Times, October 12, 2017

"It doesn’t matter whether you are a Harvard graduate or a Hadapsar (Poona) graduate. I never went to an Ivy League school. I have learnt through experience, exposure,
others’ mistakes and successes.”

Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer and executive director, Serum Institute of India Private Limited, Mint, September 16, 2017, submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi

"In the Parsi Act, the definition of adultery excluded sex with prostitutes. For the next seven decades, Parsi wives could not prove their husbands had been adulterous if the men had sex with prostitutes.”

Mitra Sharafi, associate professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947, The Times of India, September 21, 2017

"Nothing is easy, including slapstick comedy. Try pretending to slip on a banana skin.”

Boman Irani, actor, G2, December-
January 2008, submitted by reader
Rashid Khosravi

"Structures like the Victoria Terminus made in those days are not designed by architects any more, since no one can wait or spend on such heritage buildings.”

Noshir Talati, founder and chairman, Talati and Panthaky Associated Pvt Ltd, G2,
December-January 2008, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi