Adrian Sutil | Force India's driver
"I don't think Tiger did anything wrong. He's a man. Men like women. I think his image management people tried to project him as a saint who was perfect but that bubble was bound to burst. The truth has come out and Tiger looks more human now.''
H D Deve Gowda | Former prime minister
"Who is he (B S Yeddyurappa)? Who is he? Bloody bastard... I am a born fighter and I need not learn from these people... "
Simon Overland | Victoria's Police Chief Commissioner
"Look at the data. Indians are safer in this country than they are in their own country."
Aidworker | In Haiti after the earthquake
"Money is worth nothing right now, water is the currency."
Bal Thackeray | Shiv Sena chief
"I have the remote control of politics and the remote control will continue to remain with me."
Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries chairman, reacting to the Mumbai taxi controversy
"We are all Indians first. Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi belong to all Indians. That is the reality."
K H Muniyappa | Minister of State for Railways
"Jahan 63,000 km track ho aur 10,000 gadian chalti hon, wahan ekdo accident chalta rehta hai."
Sarath Fonseka | Opposition Presidential candidate
"I am the Peoples President and Rajapaksa is the Rigged President."
Orhan Pamuk | Nobel laureate
". It's no secret Kiran (Desai) is my girlfriend. She is a very intelligent and beautiful person and a great writer. India should be proud of her."
Rajendra Kumar | IG (Special Armed Forces)
"If a person like Kasab, who is only a Class 8 pass, could fire automatic weapons, use mobiles, global positioning system and other electronic gadgets successfully due to his passion and training, there is no reason why policemen who are better educated cannot do better."
Drew Barrymore | Hollywood actress
"Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They're a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart."
Sam Wurzelbacher | Aka Joe the Plumber, on John McCain
"I don't owe him ****. He really screwed up my life, is how I look at it."
Suraj Bahadur Thapa | An EFR policeman killed by the Maoists, in his personal diary
"Abhi desh ka haalkhabar theek nahin hai. I love you a lot, but I also love my country. The situation in our country is getting worse with every passing day. The partypolitics of a few people has endangered the existence of the country. We are also suffering..."
Uma Thurman | Actor
"What's interesting about the Greek gods is that they are very flawed. Each one of them has a strength and each one of them has a weakness."
Javed Aktar | Lyricist
"Good for Chetan Bhagat... All over the world, writers and musicians get their due credit and royalty for their creations. In India, right from the first contract itself, the writers and the lyricists lose their rights. A musician of the calibre and status of Ustad Bismillah Khan had to die in abject poverty! Isn't that shameful? All that we are trying to do is to make sure that the creators also get a chance to own their creation."
"Your (Aamir Khan) first big song was Papa Kehte Hain. Did it make you a star or did you make that song run?"
Aamir Khan | Actor
"The success of a song depends on the way it is picturised on a star."
".. In any case the contribution of the writer was greater than the lyricist in terms of creative contribution to a film's success."
P Chidambaram | Union home minister
"I would like no ifs, no buts and no conditions. I would like a short, simple statement from the CPI (Maoist) saying we will abjure violence and we are prepared for talks."
Kishanji | Maoist leader
"If he (PC) wants to talk on our ceasefire proposal, let him speak to me on my phone number 09734695789. He is welcome to call me on February 25, but after 5 pm.''
Rajeshwari | A shop owner near Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
"The swami (Nithyananada) used to say 'Kadhavai Thira Katru Varattum' (Open the doors, let fresh air gush in). But for him only lust has gushed in through his windows."
Madhavan Nair | Former Chairman of ISRO
"India's space success with a shoestring budget has made some countries jealous. They are now rethinking of having collaboration for the next space programme."
K G Balakrishnan | Chief Justice of India
"Due regard must be given to their (the rape victims') personal autonomy since in some cases, the victim may choose to marry the perpetrator or choose to give birth to a child conceived through forced intercourse."
Vani Subramaniam | Member of Saheli, a women's group
"The rapist will continue to rape the victim. The CJI's statement reflected a typical male chauvinistic, patriarchal attitude that does not take into account what it means to be violated. A rapist may think he can get away with the crime if he marries the victim. Is this the message the CJI wishes to send out in a country like ours where magistrates already compel rape victims to marry their rapists?"
Lalu Prasad | RJD chief
"Ninety per cent of the men are against this bill and we will not allow it to be passed at any cost. This bill is political dacoity, we will not tolerate it."
Mayawati |Uttar Pradesh chief minister
"I am often criticised for putting up my own statues, but I see nothing wrong in it. I wish to ask them (my critics) if there is any law disallowing statues of important persons during their lifetime. What I have built is going to be there for posterity. I firmly believe that those who are unable to create history are always pushed into oblivion."
Eric Holder | Attorney General, USA
"The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's a reality."
Anju Gupta | Senior IPS officer, Advani's personal security officer on Dec 6, 1992
"Advani ke aate hi mahaul garam ho gaya. Jaise hi Advani bolte gaye, mahaul garam hota gaya. ( No sooner had Advani arrived than the situation became tense. And it worsened as he spoke). I did not see any of these leaders making an effort to stop the demolition."
Mahinda Rajapaksa | Sri Lankan president, commenting on Fonseka
"He is a fool. On November 16 he was sitting right here (president's office in Colombo) and I asked him if he was interested in contesting (the presidential election) and he said, No, sir... I haven't made up my mind. Even on the day of his last visit he didn't tell me. I told him that politics is not the army. I told him, whatever he might think, I know this game and I am going to win this election".
Imran Mirza | Sania Mirza's father, on Shoaib Malik marrying his daughter
"This will be a unique case where the husband and wife will represent their respective countries in sport."
Madonna | Popstar, about her 13yearold daughter Lourdes Leon
"I wish she'd dress more conservatively. She is inspired by kids she sees in hiphop and ballet classes, European influences, bands she listens to. You could say it's in the DNA."
M K Alagiri | Union minister, on succession issues within the DMK
"Currently, he (Stalin) is the deputy CM. I will contest for the president's post if there is an election. Ours is a democratic party."
Lalu Prasad | RJD president, on Baba Ramdev's decision to enter politics
"These holy men have turned senile."
Jairam Ramesh | Environment minister
"I still have not been able to figure out why even after 60 years of Independence we stick to this barbaric and colonial relic. Why can't we have a convocation in a simple dress instead of coming dressed up as medieval vicars and popes. Such convocation ceremonies are boring. We must live with the times."
Fatima Bhutto | Benazir Bhutto's niece, on the murder of her father
"India has launched a moon mission and we can't even light up the streets. We are a nuclear armed state that cannot run refrigerators."
Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras | AMU professor, two days before he died
"I want to work for the gay community. I have decided. I want to go to America. I want to teach them Marathi. Not the literature, the language. America is the only place where I will be free to be gay."
Veerappa Moily | Union law minister
"The hands of law are long enough to catch anyone. I don't think Justice Dinakaran is above the law, or is beyond the reach of the law."
Jim Carrey | Actor, on twitter
"Tiger Woods owes nothing 2 anyone but himself. No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/ lifestyle. Tiger was wrong and Elin was ignoring the obvious."
K G Balakrishnan | Chief Justice of India
"I earnestly and sincerely feel that the RTI Act needs to be suitably amended by inserting another specific clause to the effect that any information, disclosure of which would prejudicially affect the independence of the judiciary should be exempt from disclosure."
Shashi Tharoor | MoS, on twitter about the IPL Kochi team row
"I've had enough."
Digvijay Singh | Congress leader
"I have known P Chidambaram since 1985. I have been a victim of his intellectual arrogance many times . In this case (fighting the Maoist problem), I have differed with his strategy that does not take into consideration the people living in the affected area who ultimately matter."
Zafar Adeel | Director, UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
"It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet."
Shah Rukh Khan | Commenting on the body scanners in London airport
"You've got to see them (body scans). It makes you embarrassed - if you're not well endowed. You walk into the machine and everything - the whole outline of your body - comes out. I was a little scared. I came out. Then I saw these girls - they had these printouts. I said 'give them to me' - and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them."