"You are not working harder in India than you were; you are working smarter, responding to the needs of society."

- Warren Buffet, during his Bangalore visit

"I think I had a fear that our batting could collapse, our batting had been struggling from the first match to the last. I will give credit to the bowlers from the first match to the last.”

- Shahid Afridi, Pakistan cricket skipper after losing to India in semifinals of ICC World Cup.

"No team deserves to win if one fields the way Pakistan did. You cannot drop a player like Sachin four times. And don't forget the ground fielding. This was the ultimate pressure game."

- Imran Khan, the captain of Pakistan's 1992 World Cup winning squad.

“Shahid Afridi’s so graceful….so dignified. I hope one day I could invite him to my humble home for a cup of tea.”

- Minissha Lamba, actor, on Pakistan’s skipper after they lost semifinal match to India.

"I have to make sure I see me wife (sic) enough, but if we can work out the schedule, then yeah, I want to do it. Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, rock music of the '80s - you can't go wrong. And I've already got the hair. I am way ahead of them on that account (sic).”

- Actor Russel Brand told Entertainment Weekly after confirming he will sign his upcoming movie "Rock Of Ages" only if the schedule allows him to spend time with wife
Kate Perry. The 35-year-old is said to be joining Cruise, Baldwin and Mary J. Blige for the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway show.

"There are so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original. There is nothing like me."

- Paris Hilton.

"I have seen a lot of Hugh's films and also his work on TV. I loved Wolverine the most and during our discussion just a while back, Hugh offered me to be part of the next X-Men installment. I told him I am in. I would definitely love to do X-Men with him.”

- Shah Rukh Khan to audience about Hugh Jackman at FICCI Frames 2011

"Well, Oh! I just asked you to finance the film."

- Hugh Jackman responding to Shah Rukh Khan (above)

“Two years into my presidency and I’m still getting these questions: Who are you and where do you come from?”

- Barack Obama, President on being constantly asked about his roots

“Inflation is like a tiger, once it is set free, it is very difficult to put it back in its cage.”

- Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier, on managing price rise

"I have no interest in Indian politics."

- Sant Singh Chatwal, hotelier as he again denied a purported WikiLeaks report suggesting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was trying to win Akali Dal support during the 2008 trust vote through him.

“I tried to put myself in his (Gates’s) shoes, and I concluded that it was just this simple: What’s the most I can get?”

- Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder on sharing company stakes with Bill Gates.