"I’ve been traveling over the last year. I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion and
ethnicity is like betraying that.”
Shenaz Treasury, actor and video jockey, Hindustan Times, November 19, 2016, submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"Never go to bed mad.
Stay up and fight.”
Phyllis Diller, comedian,
Reader’s Digest, November 2016
"I think it’s great that the next
generation) of people like me, the funny ones in class, will now be given a little respect and their art won’t be killed. Careers will happen. But then again, not everyone will have a career. Many will just have a few internet moments. They they’ll have to pay bills, etc. Those who shine will hit it big.”
Cyrus Broacha, comedian, Society, July 2015, submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"The last time we used Adi Marzban’s scripts with slight tweaks. This time, we realized that we had exhausted most of it. I admit it was tough to get writers who could match up to Adi’s jokes.”
Burjor Patel, thespian, Mid-Day,
February 5, 2017
"I started the hospice in the
Christmas of 2012 and called it Probably Paradise because just ‘paradise’ is a boring place.”
Roxanne Davur, founder of animal
hospice, Probably Paradise,
Mid-Day, January 31, 2016
"It should be a popular concept, as our organs won’t be of any use when we pass away. And God forbid, if any of our loved ones or kids fall sick, and require an organ, won’t we need such donors?”
Farah Khan, film director, whose
mother is a Parsi, on the need for donating
organs, Hindustan Times, February 21, 2016
"I am also not in favor of personal guarantee. You may ask the promoter to pledge his shareholding, but not a personal guarantee as
its worth may be smaller.”
Yezdi Hirji Malegam, member of National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards, Hindustan Times, March 15, 2016
"I love trees! I find it glamorous to associate with the tiger, the elephant, the lion, the rhino. But they need a home — the forest and its catchment areas, which, if you keep chopping down, there won’t be any wildlife left in India.”
Pheroza Godrej, art historian,
DNA, April 24, 2016
"To my mind, the first two
freedoms any country needs
are freedom from want and fear. These two have always worried
me about this country. Maybe
the budget has taken care
of freedom from want, but
freedom of fear continues to
gnaw at me. It is biting at
everybody, really.”
Fali S. Nariman, jurist, Hindustan
Times, March 6, 2016
"Two super-contagious diseases, fear and greed, will occur forever in the investment community. The timing of these epidemics will be unpredictable... We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
Warren Buffett, investor,
The Economic Times, June 14, 2016
"The conductor makes no sound when the orchestra’s on stage.
I let them play their very best
as if it were their idea.”
Zane Dalal, associate music director,
Symphony Orchestra of India, DNA,
September 11, 2016
"What (writer George) Orwell feared were those who would
ban books. What (writer Aldous) Huxley feared was that there
would be no reason to ban a
book, for there would be no
one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, late American author,
quoted by political columnist Matt Bai
"Tardeo was christened from palm tads flourishing below Cumballa Hill; with a deity installed the term Tad-dev was coined.”
Meher Marfatia, author and columnist,
Mid-Day, November 13, 2016
"With each passing film, you
realize that you know so little. Every film teaches you something, and you know that you are not on the top of your game. You think you weren’t good in your last film. Every experience — good
or bad — is something one
should learn from.”
Boman Irani, actor, Hindustan Times,
December 1, 2016
"Philanthropy today has become so professional, that somewhere along the way it has lost its soul. Doing good is no longer a private act between a bountiful giver and a grateful receiver. It is now about prudent social investments!
Noshir Dadrawala, chief executive officer, Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy, Philanthropy, October-December 2016
"You could perhaps say that
about (brother) Rohinton’s work — from Tales From Firozsha Baag
to Family Matters, his entire
oeuvre strictly concerns the Parsi
community and is entirely based on his nostalgic memories of
his past life in (Bombay).”
Cyrus Mistry, author,
thepunchmagazine.com, January 2017
"I wish I had worked somewhere else, in another company in India or abroad before joining Madison. That experience would have been invaluable to me. But maybe
in another lifetime.”
Lara Balsara, executive director,
Madison World, The Economic
Times, January 20, 2017