“If you look at what we consider to be the transformative industries of the 21st century, we want to be the players there. We've said that we not only want to be great, but we want to let the world to know we're great.”

“The three hours of makeup put me in the mood every morning. That was easy. As soon as you get into the dresses and the hair, you feel the transformation starting. If only all my characters could be so clear.”

“The changes add up to the biggest transformation of BBC World Service that has been undertaken - and one of the most far-reaching - since the BBC began international broadcasting more than 70 years ago.”

“Two years ago our model was a direct relationship with customers. We had to go through a transformation. To create leverage and scale, we knew we needed to have engagement with partners to drive that business.”

“We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited.”

“We need to become more aware of how rapidly the definitions of what it means to be Jewish are changing. The philanthropic community must not shy away from confronting the difficult issues of identity and continuity these transformations raise.”

“The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.”

“This recent wave of merger news provides some of the strongest evidence yet that companies are willing to do some long-term planning. The kind of deals getting announced not just bolt-on acquisitions but transformational deals,”

“I think this is clearly something where technology is leveling the playing field between the bigger companies and smaller companies. This industry has really transformed itself in 18 months in terms of the technology base that it is running on.”

“The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.”