"I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?"

“Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.”

“Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.”

“A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.”

“The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Interview with Pauline T. Newton, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

“Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.”

“I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.”

“In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!”

Source : Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.229, Lulu Press, Inc

“Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.”