Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).


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You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...
JERRY SPINELLI
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
JERRY SEINFELD
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of slee...
JERRY SPINELLI
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess ...
JERRY SEINFELD
Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the othe...
JERRY SEINFELD
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are...
JERRY BRIDGES
I've had great success being a total idiot.
JERRY LEWIS
Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.
JERRY WEINTRAUB
When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.
JERRY SPINELLI
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and frag...
JERRY RUBIN
I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still t...
JERRY GILLIES
It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
JERRY BROWN
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
JERRY GILLIES
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rain...
JERRY CHIN
Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
JERRY WEST
When the game is over it is really just beginning.
JERRY KRAMER
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
JERRY MARTIN
I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication...
Not easy. There's an ent...
JERRY SEINFELD
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIA
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energ...
JERRY GILLIES
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
JERRY BROWN
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to h...
JERRY GILLIES
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
JERRY LEWIS
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the onl...
JERRY GARCIA
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside a...
JERRY GILLIES
I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
JERRY GARCIA
Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.
JERRY MARTIN
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
JERRY BROWN
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the ...
JERRY GARCIA
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
JERRY GILLIES
What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important th...
JERRY GILLIES
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place...
JERRY GARCIA
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
JERRY BROWN
By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything ...
JERRY RUBIN
It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenho...
JERRY ADLER
Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobe...
JERRY BRIDGES
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
JERRY SEINFIELD
The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
JERRY RUBIN
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
JERRY BROWN
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death i...
JERRY SEINFELD
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits th...
JERRY SEINFELD
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr...
JERRY RUBIN
A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
JERRY SEINFELD
Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating charac...
JERRY STAHL
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th...
JERRY FALWELL
We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.
JERRY MORAN
I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alic...
JERRY CANTRELL
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH
Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about suc...
JERRY CANTRELL
Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
JERRY LEWIS
I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the inco...
JERRY FALWELL
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fit...
JERRY SEINFELD
Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Aus...
JERRY LAWLER
They'd have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-tick...
JERRY REINSDORF