"Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden."

“How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.”

“I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.”

“My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.”

“I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”

“As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.”

“I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.”

Source : "Q&A: We Heart Amy Ryan". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. September 22, 2010.

“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.”