"... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay."

“Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.”

“In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds.”

“My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.”

Source : "Chairman of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. September 4, 2004.

“The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.”

“I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.”

“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”

“I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.”

“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”