Quotes
"I see my children responding angrily to every orthodox voice, and I say, why bother, you’re not going to change some old person’s mind. They’re set in their ways.”
Goolrookh Gupta, The Times of India,
December 24, 2017
The Modi government itself last year launched the Punyadham Yatra scheme, subsidizing
transport and accommodation
for pilgrims to Puri, Vrindavan, Ajmer Sharif, Mathura and
Vaishno Devi. With what face
can Modi abolish one pilgrim subsidy (Haj, calling it appeasement), but create others (without calling them appeasement too)?”
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
whose late wife was a Parsi, The
Times of India, January 21, 2018
"If even two or three of these
60 kids think of theater as a
viable profession, then I think
we’d have done our job!”
Shernaz Patel, co-founder, theater
company, Rage, on conducting
playwriting workshops for children,
The Hindu, January 23, 2018
"Every college has its glamorous crowd — made up of beautiful
people who pose and strut
around and seem to make a
career of being cool and going
to fancy parties. They aren’t
particularly admirable or scintillating, but still everybody wants
to be a part of their world.”
Shabnam Minwalla, journalist turned
author, The Hindu, January 18, 2018
"We architects owe a great
responsibility by planning to
consume a minimum of energy, by taking maximum advantage of God’s given gift of natural resources by way of breeze, sunlight and all such other extraneous factors and thus lessen the use of
conventional sources of energy.”
Rusi Khambatta, architect, DNA,
January 17, 2018
"There is a fear among Indian
actors because they do not
want to be ostracized from
Bollywood. The level of power
that women now have in the
West is still not here in India,
but is coming soon.”
Shenaz Treasury, actor, Hindustan
Times, January 21, 2018
"The man who does more than he’s paid for, will soon be paid
for more than he does.”
Napolean Hill, American author
quoted in Mouth and Foot Painting
Artist 2018 table calendar
"I come from an amazingly
Bohemian family and even my
family will have a tough time
to come to terms with it, if I
said I was gay or bisexual.
People should express
themselves the way they want to as long as they are not causing any harm to another person.”
Jim Sarbh, actor, Bombay Times,
January 11, 2018
"I honestly feel in our line of
work, it’s more difficult to handle success than failure. To handle success maturely, especially
over a long period of time it is
more difficult to maintain.”
Akshaye Khanna, actor, whose
mother Geetanjali is a Parsi, mid-day,
November 17, 2017
"On a normal day, I survived
on just five hours of broken
sleep. Struggling with long
working hours I was exhausted, and constantly felt unhealthy. That’s when I decided I wasn’t
going to spend the rest of my
life this way. I started off
with light cardio exercises.”
Ayesha Gagrat, financial professional, MumbaiMirror, November 16, 2017
"Facts are stuborn, but
statistics are more pliable.”
Mark Twain, writer, The Economic
Times, January 15, 2018
"When I started out, any building material was impossible to get because India had not yet embraced the global market. There was no TV and one only read about what was happening globally. The materials that were available could be counted on one’s fingertips. We assembled whatever materials were available around us and designed accordingly.”
Noshir Talati, founder and chairman, Talati and Panthaky Associated Pvt Ltd, G2, December-January 2008, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi
"I look for a picture that will have an impact, some resonance.”
Dr Jehangir Sorabjee, general physician, head of Bombay Hospital’s medicine
department, who will publish the third
edition of a coffee-table book on Bombay,
The Indian Express, November 6, 2017
"I had planned to make a
small film before I started a big film, but realized that big film or small, the struggle is the same. You still have to get the script right... Like my husband Shirish Kunder points out, you don’t make money with small films and if it doesn’t work, you get abused.
It is better to make big films.”
Farah Khan, filmmaker, whose mother
is a Parsi, DNA, October 25, 2017
"We (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) are the biggest foundation (in the world). We have about
$ 30-40 of capital for every Indian. If we tried to be the government, the money will be gone in a week.”
Bill Gates, chairman, The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, The Economic Times, November 20, 2017
"We don’t have an environment
where somebody says, ‘You have
a great idea and so you need to be
supported.’ We have instead an attitude of ‘We don’t need to have this.
We can do well with what we have.’”
Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts,
The Economic Times, October 12, 2017