Lack of charisma can be fatal.
JENNY HOLZER Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the mo...
JENNY HOLZER I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I...
JENNY HOLZER So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly c...
JENNY HOLZER I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric pat...
JENNY HOLZER Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
JENNY HOLZER The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I h...
JENNY HOLZER I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started fing...
JENNY HOLZER The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I pu...
JENNY HOLZER It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
JENNY HOLZER The most profound things are inexpressible.
JENNY HOLZER It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
JENNY HOLZER I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread ou...
JENNY HOLZER If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.
JENNY HOLZER You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.
JENNY HOLZER One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything...
JENNY HOLZER It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody i...
JENNY HOLZER I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I ans...
JENNY HOLZER WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE JENNY HOLZER MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITH
TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS.
I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHE...
JENNY HOLZER There's something about light that's right for these terrible subjects. It's a way of having beauty ...
JENNY HOLZER There's something about light that's right for these terrible subjects,
JENNY HOLZER The Experience of Art.
JENNY HOLZER Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".
HAROLD HOLZER I can confirm that all that is left are the details. The Metropolitan is looking forward to formally...
HAROLD HOLZER It was an entertaining game, real scrappy. It was a good physical game. We got down 3-1 early and co...
BEN HOLZER It was a surprising start because we were kind of rebuilding. The young players have done a good job...
BEN HOLZER One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out...
HAROLD HOLZER Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.
HAROLD HOLZER There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always fe...
HANS HOLZER It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey
HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.
HAROLD HOLZER Whenever I read a Lincoln book, I look to see if there's anything new, and in this case there was.
HAROLD HOLZER New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, ...
HAROLD HOLZER Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the s...
HAROLD HOLZER One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the...
HAROLD HOLZER Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis...
HAROLD HOLZER The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.
HAROLD HOLZER Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employe...
HAROLD HOLZER The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
HAROLD HOLZER Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, n...
HAROLD HOLZER A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere...
HAROLD HOLZER The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship ...
HAROLD HOLZER Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most li...
HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.
HAROLD HOLZER I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.
HAROLD HOLZER We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines ...
HAROLD HOLZER For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinne...
HAROLD HOLZER Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln gives a lesson in adaptive leadership even to those of us who will never advocate for compen...
HAROLD HOLZER John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.
HAROLD HOLZER President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not all...
HAROLD HOLZER A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.
HAROLD HOLZER Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for ...
HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during...
HAROLD HOLZER One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor tha...
HAROLD HOLZER The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defi...
HAROLD HOLZER Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.
HAROLD HOLZER Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almight...
HAROLD HOLZER Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.
HAROLD HOLZER Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.
HAROLD HOLZER Almost every measure of education, or cognitive ability, or talent is now associated with a higher i...
HARRY HOLZER Paths to legalization for those who are here and for those who remain here makes sense. Legalizing t...
HARRY HOLZER The 1990s were an eye-opener. You had the strongest labor market in 30 years; all things being equal...
HARRY HOLZER Overall, I see the report in line with the last six months to a year, which I would characterize as ...
HARRY HOLZER We have every confidence that the negotiations are very much on track and that there will be a respo...
HAROLD HOLZER We will not be commenting until it has been received and reviewed.
HAROLD HOLZER There is no precedent for this.
HAROLD HOLZER You don't want to keep a person with her talent in perennial handcuffs. To have someone with her daz...
HAROLD HOLZER The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepp...
HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh a...
HAROLD HOLZER At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take ...
HAROLD HOLZER You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you...
JENNY SLATE I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and...
JENNY SLATE I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos...
JENNY LEWIS There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is b...
JENNY ECLAIR I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way t...
JENNY OFFILL I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ...
JENNY LEWIS My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!
JENNY ECLAIR I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun....
JENNY MOLLEN When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did ...
JENNY SLATE But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?
JENNY HAN It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.
JENNY HAN Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you so...
JENNY VALENTINE Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just ...
JENNY HAN God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he f...
JENNY WEBER I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you t...
JENNY DOWNHAM Rage can be so common it turns ambient.
JENNY ZHANG Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family pl...
JENNY SHIPLEY NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
JENNY SHIPLEY You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexis...
JENNY SLATE I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt tha...
JENNY AGUTTER I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I&#...
JENNY LEWIS I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it w...
JENNY LAWSON I don't believe in fad diets.
JENNY CRAIG I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat fo...
JENNY ECLAIR I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.
JENNY ECLAIR I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat ...
JENNY MCCARTHY With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international...
JENNY SHIPLEY Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me...
JENNY SLATE When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw ...
JENNY LEWIS I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other...
JENNY ZHANG When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn...
JENNY LAWSON I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with...
JENNY SLATE I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.
JENNY LEWIS People come in and out of your life. For a time they're your world; they are everything. There's no ...
JENNY HAN We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant eve...
JENNY HAN Everything is going to be fine.”

I hate it when people say that, people who have absolu...
JENNY VALENTINE I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it s...
JENNY TROUT Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.
JENNY SLATE I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewher...
JENNY SLATE At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and...
JENNY MCCARTHY It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to g...
JENNY MCCARTHY If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
JENNY MCCARTHY I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for gra...
JENNY ZHANG Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongu...
JENNY ZHANG It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than f...
JENNY ZHANG Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of a...
JENNY ZHANG Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psy...
JENNY ZHANG When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainl...
JENNY SHIPLEY The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think the...
JENNY ZHANG Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisa...
JENNY SHIPLEY If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to ...
JENNY ZHANG A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
JENNY CRAIG Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food q...
JENNY SHIPLEY Wait!" he yelled.
I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the ...
JENNY HAN When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel a...
JENNY LAWSON I’ve fallen for the one person I shouldn’t have. For the boy who broke Mary’s heart. For Renni...
JENNY HAN I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him en...
JENNY HAN Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, ...
JENNY TROUT I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.
JENNY TROUT That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the a...
JENNY HAN The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are...
JENNY MCCARTHY Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of pa...
JENNY MCCARTHY When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both cov...
JENNY ZHANG I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, ...
JENNY SLATE Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dab...
JENNY ZHANG It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside locke...
JENNY MCCARTHY My favourite food is cake.
What kind of cake?
It doesn't matter. All cake.
JENNY HAN Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.
JENNY ECLAIR Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what...
JENNY HAN i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.
JENNY HAN When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficu...
JENNY DOWNHAM I couldn't wait to be an adult woman, and I'm glad I felt that way as a kid because, when I ...
JENNY SLATE There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It hel...
JENNY NIMMO I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how d...
JENNY OFFILL My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. Th...
JENNY LEWIS I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, bu...
JENNY LEWIS Dear ignoramuses,

Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddler...
JENNY COLGAN After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair...
JENNY ECLAIR I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things ...
JENNY AGUTTER The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same ki...
JENNY AGUTTER I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member...
JENNY NIMMO Why did my mother, a grown woman, get to talk like all her hopes and dreams had been shat on, kicked...
JENNY ZHANG Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still ...
JENNY LAWSON I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I ma...
JENNY LEWIS I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
JENNY SLATE Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in...
JENNY LEWIS Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her...
JENNY DOWNHAM It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous o...
JENNY DOWNHAM It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.'
'Why are you saying that?'
JENNY DOWNHAM The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really specia...
JENNY BICKS I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.
JENNY SLATE As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't unti...
JENNY ECLAIR It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ...
JENNY LEWIS I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just f...
JENNY MCCARTHY What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society an...
JENNY MCCARTHY The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, w...
JENNY SHIPLEY I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I...
JENNY LEWIS My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness th...
JENNY ZHANG Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
JENNY SHIPLEY The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really ...
JENNY LAWSON If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably...
JENNY LAWSON A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' ...
JENNY ECLAIR I originally recorded [the latter] for the solo record, and I wasn't really confident with the way i...
JENNY LEWIS That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you...
JENNY SLATE It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with ...
JENNY SLATE Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.
JENNY NIMMO But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.
JENNY HAN In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
JENNY LEWIS Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accid...
JENNY ZHANG Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.
JENNY DOWNHAM It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they wer...
JENNY DOWNHAM I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't...
JENNY DOWNHAM I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I cou...
JENNY DOWNHAM I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn o...
JENNY ECLAIR Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because th...
JENNY ECLAIR I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
JENNY SLATE I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for peopl...
JENNY LEWIS When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
JENNY HAN I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?...
JENNY HAN ...When I get you back, I’m gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you.” He tries...
JENNY HAN Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need...
JENNY HAN I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.
JENNY HAN I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd neve...
JENNY HAN You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.
JENNY HAN