I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
Jerry Saltz
Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip... JERRY SALTZ I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's ... THERESA REBECK New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. VANESSA FERLITO Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' ... VAL KILMER I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' ... TITUSS BURGESS New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the ... BUSTA RHYMES I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll k... DONALD TRUMP Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New Y... TOPHER GRACE I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselv... RICKY MARTIN I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalama... DEREK JETER New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especial... CHACE CRAWFORD On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi... ERIC DANE I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 1... CHRISTIEN MEINDERTSMA I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot ... LL COOL J If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time i... TAYLOR SCHILLING I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I a... JOJO MOYES I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to mo... PARKER POSEY There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and p... KATE MICUCCI Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki... LEWIS BLACK I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in Ne... BARRY MCGEE I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and ... JAMES IHA I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm no... DYLAN WALSH I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not... JIM GAFFIGAN They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensi... DOUG E. FRESH It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the comm... CHRISTA MCAULIFFE I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to G... THALIA I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it.... ADRIAN GRENIER I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I ju... KENDRICK LAMAR In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ... HUGH JACKMAN I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller. SAMANTHA SHANNON It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmake... TIM BURTON 'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School. GAIL CARSON LEVINE There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to trave... JAMES SALTER I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet... BONNIE BEDELIA I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's mar... PAZ VEGA I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been aro... VALERIE SIMPSON There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it. BRIAN F. O'BYRNE The Documents Project has actively collected documentation on both island-based Puerto Rican art as ... MARI CARMEN RAMIREZ I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket sci... RACHAEL RAY If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the la... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhi... RICHARD PHILLIPS I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New... PETER FALK I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the mov... ELIJAH KELLEY We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our... BRIE LARSON La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent Ne... BILLY GARDELL I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, ... SARAH DESSEN I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black... STEVEN WRIGHT I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I ... MARY-KATE OLSEN I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. YANN MARTEL With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over ... BILLY KOCH The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a differ... ERIN WASSON Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it&... NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer quest... MAE WHITMAN Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really ex... JACKIE EVANCHO When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's... WOODY HARRELSON I turn on the radio. I'm a really big fan of old-fashioned dial radio. I love WNYC and NPR and a... JULIA STILES If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down th... VING RHAMES What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just... CHASKE SPENCER I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver. DAN FOGLER But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in... TIM GUNN I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice ... SUZI QUATRO I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about bei... ANTON DU BEKE I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests an... CARL LEWIS At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible&... ANNALEE NEWITZ I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home.... TAMARA TUNIE I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jers... TAMMY BLANCHARD My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one ... DIANA GALBADON My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ... DIANA GABALDON One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy... GARY VAYNERCHUK Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inh... NINA DOBREV I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't ... DEBBIE HARRY When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beau... PATTI SCIALFA I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York Ci... JESSICA HAGEDORN
More Jerry Saltz
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibi... JERRY SALTZ It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't ow... JERRY SALTZ New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us f... JERRY SALTZ 'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensi... JERRY SALTZ When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. Th... JERRY SALTZ Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smud... JERRY SALTZ I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and an... JERRY SALTZ A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms,... JERRY SALTZ Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a co... JERRY SALTZ Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Ar... JERRY SALTZ The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a view... JERRY SALTZ Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - on... JERRY SALTZ After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through... JERRY SALTZ Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allove... JERRY SALTZ I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alt... JERRY SALTZ Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, want... JERRY SALTZ Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entre... JERRY SALTZ Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined th... JERRY SALTZ Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. JERRY SALTZ As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory e... JERRY SALTZ Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its ... JERRY SALTZ A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three d... JERRY SALTZ Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleri... JERRY SALTZ Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as... JERRY SALTZ Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced sec... JERRY SALTZ Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and sev... JERRY SALTZ After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. ... JERRY SALTZ Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hug... JERRY SALTZ Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennia... JERRY SALTZ The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art wo... JERRY SALTZ The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. JERRY SALTZ I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love th... JERRY SALTZ When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Franc... JERRY SALTZ 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art wor... JERRY SALTZ Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably ... JERRY SALTZ My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially ... JERRY SALTZ It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform deca... JERRY SALTZ Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater ... JERRY SALTZ There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midweste... JERRY SALTZ I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. JERRY SALTZ Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and ex... JERRY SALTZ Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone... JERRY SALTZ Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, deciphe... JERRY SALTZ I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like ... JERRY SALTZ Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the rich... JERRY SALTZ Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period... JERRY SALTZ Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties,... JERRY SALTZ Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. JERRY SALTZ The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majes... JERRY SALTZ When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about soc... JERRY SALTZ A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. JERRY SALTZ To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, ... JERRY SALTZ To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, su... JERRY SALTZ I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared ... JERRY SALTZ 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center stil... JERRY SALTZ Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent... JERRY SALTZ Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternati... JERRY SALTZ Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by price... JERRY SALTZ One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the windo... JERRY SALTZ When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting femal... JERRY SALTZ Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is order... JERRY SALTZ I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly room... JERRY SALTZ If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other ... JERRY SALTZ I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the... JERRY SALTZ Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't vi... JERRY SALTZ Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite... JERRY SALTZ The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an... JERRY SALTZ John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if th... JERRY SALTZ Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eat... JERRY SALTZ The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing ... JERRY SALTZ It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a ... JERRY SALTZ 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip... JERRY SALTZ Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world... JERRY SALTZ Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now... JERRY SALTZ We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing... JERRY SALTZ I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anythin... JERRY SALTZ Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. Ho... JERRY SALTZ New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks... JERRY SALTZ I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physio... JERRY SALTZ All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twen... JERRY SALTZ Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed siste... JERRY SALTZ Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many a... JERRY SALTZ In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction... JERRY SALTZ Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or bus... JERRY SALTZ You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Ro... JERRY SALTZ When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organ... JERRY SALTZ Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets,... JERRY SALTZ It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the... JERRY SALTZ Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewe... JERRY SALTZ Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its tim... JERRY SALTZ Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been... JERRY SALTZ Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting ti... JERRY SALTZ Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her painting... JERRY SALTZ It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the ... JERRY SALTZ The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbe... JERRY SALTZ Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm... JERRY SALTZ While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an... JERRY SALTZ A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contem... JERRY SALTZ I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to sto... JERRY SALTZ Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy mac... JERRY SALTZ Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll. JERRY HELLER Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process. JERRY MORAN We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values. JERRY SPRINGER Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do. JERRY BRUCKHEIMER To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love ... JERRY HALL We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on ... JERRY FALWELL I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a ... JERRY DOYLE We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri... JERRY BROWN There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family. JERRY OPPENHEIMER Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant. JERRY WEST I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We... JERRY HALL I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then ... JERRY HALL When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and... JERRY HALL I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company. JERRY HARRISON Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gal... JERRY FALWELL You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D... JERRY JONES And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the ... JERRY GARCIA When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' Bu... JERRY REINSDORF When I bought the team, I wasn't thinking about a new arena. But obviously I'm very proud of... JERRY REINSDORF Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors,... JERRY YANG I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their... JERRY SEINFELD I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the cou... JERRY HALL Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers ... JERRY GREENFIELD The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. Y... JERRY SEINFELD Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoff... JERRY BROWN When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and... JERRY JONES The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I ... JERRY RICE I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great par... JERRY JONES I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues. JERRY DOYLE 'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rh... JERRY LEIBER The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional milit... JERRY COSTELLO Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces y... JERRY GREENFIELD I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they had... JERRY HELLER Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. JERRY GELLIS Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $200... JERRY GILLIES MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Board... JERRY SPEYER The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway. JERRY WELLER The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodma... JERRY LEIBER You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marr... JERRY MCCANT I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie. JERRY ONLY We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite. JERRY ONLY My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I w... JERRY HALL If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. JERRY FALWELL Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. JERRY GELLIS If God had an agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about Thursday. JERRY REYNOLDS People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about... JERRY MCNERNEY 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