Top 100 Holzer Quotes
#1. One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement
I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.
Dan Aykroyd
#2. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
Harold Holzer
#3. Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers
Harold Holzer
#4. Lincoln must have welcomed the chance that evening to escape from such friends, if only to submit to a final fitting for the recently delivered inaugural suit from the Chicago tailors Titsworth & Brother.
Harold Holzer
#5. I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.
Jenny Holzer
#6. It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
That's good design.
Sepp Holzer
#7. From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.
Harold Holzer
#9. I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
Jenny Holzer
#10. WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD
THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
THE BACK OF THE THROAT.
Jenny Holzer
#12. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Harold Holzer
#13. The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.
Harold Holzer
#15. Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.
Jenny Holzer
#16. With you inside me comes the knowledge of my death.
Jenny Holzer
#17. SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO NIBBLE ON
THE INSIDES OF THEIR OWN CHEEKS.
IV'E SEEN AN OTHERWISE LOVELY GIRL
CONTORT HER FACE TO REACH A FAVORITE SPOT.
THERE ARE BIT LINES WHERE REPEATED NIPS
HAVE BUILT RIDGES OF SCAR TISSUE.
Jenny Holzer
#18. Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee
Harold Holzer
#20. The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.
Harold Holzer
#21. I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.
Jenny Holzer
#22. You are a victim of the rules you live by.
Jenny Holzer
#23. When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.
Jenny Holzer
#24. Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy
Jenny Holzer
#25. The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.
Harold Holzer
#26. By mid-November, his protests notwithstanding, whiskers began sprouting from his face. A few weeks later, his assistant private secretary, John Hay, approvingly punned: Election news Abe's hirsute fancy warrant - Apparent hair becomes heir apparent.44
Harold Holzer
#27. Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.
Harold Holzer
#28. OBVIOUSLY YOU STRIKE OUT
AGAINST PEOPLE WITHIN RANGE.
IT'S CATHARTIC TO AFFECT
SOMEONE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.
ALTERNATIVELY, CHOOSE
ENEMIES IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAY
SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO FIGHT.
Jenny Holzer
#29. The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans
Harold Holzer
#30. I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.
Harold Holzer
#31. Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".
Harold Holzer
#33. One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.
Harold Holzer
#34. At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.
Harold Holzer
#35. I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
Jenny Holzer
#36. On the subject of "personal beauty," for example, Lincoln merrily confided he felt fortunate that "'the women couldn't vote,' otherwise the monstrous portraits of him which had been circulated during the canvas by friends as well as by foes would surely defeat him.
Harold Holzer
#37. BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.
Jenny Holzer
#38. His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.
Harold Holzer
#39. If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.
Jenny Holzer
#40. How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
Jenny Holzer
#41. Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison
Jenny Holzer
#42. That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.
Jenny Holzer
#43. The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.
Harold Holzer
#44. The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.
Harold Holzer
#45. I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.
Jenny Holzer
#46. In 1945 I help liberate Berlin. I was six years in Red Army," Rogov said, his eyes gleaming with the memory.
Erika Holzer
#47. Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.
Harold Holzer
#48. I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.
Jenny Holzer
#49. You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.
Jenny Holzer
#50. In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.
Jenny Holzer
#51. New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, not belittling it.
Harold Holzer
#52. The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
Jenny Holzer
#53. WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU
IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST
TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN.
Jenny Holzer
#54. For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.
Harold Holzer
#57. The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
Harold Holzer
#58. With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.
Jenny Holzer
#59. Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.
Jenny Holzer
#60. THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS
DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH
SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.
Jenny Holzer
#61. General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission.
Harold Holzer
#62. It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
Jenny Holzer
#63. Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.
Jenny Holzer
#64. Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.
Harold Holzer
#65. Romantic love was invented to manipulate women
Jenny Holzer
#66. Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.
Jenny Holzer
#67. Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.
Jenny Holzer
#69. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
AND IT DOES ME
NO GOOD AT ALL
Jenny Holzer
#71. At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind
Jenny Holzer
#72. Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
Jenny Holzer
#73. THERE'S NO REASON TO SLEEP
CURLED UP AND BENT.
IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE,
IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU, AND IT
DOESN'T PROTECT YOU FROM DANGER.
IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT AN ATTACK
YOU SHOULD STAY AWAKE
OR SLEEP LIGHTLY WITH
LIMBS UNFURLED FOR ACTION.
Jenny Holzer
#74. Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.
Harold Holzer
#75. One of the cost of holding a Federal office was geographic isolation in the nation's capital.
Harold Holzer
#77. A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.
Jenny Holzer
#78. I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!
Jenny Holzer
#80. John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.
Harold Holzer
#81. Lincoln again got his name prominently mentioned in the New York Tribune, though this time it was for allegedly pumping up his expense account.
Harold Holzer
#82. One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.
Harold Holzer
#83. My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.
Jenny Holzer
#85. IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
AND GETTING BITS STUCK
IN THEIR NOSES.
Jenny Holzer
#86. Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.
Harold Holzer
#87. At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
Jenny Holzer
#88. Being happy is more important than anything else.
Jenny Holzer
#89. In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble
Hans Holzer
#90. Go where people sleep and see if they are safe
Jenny Holzer
#91. Remember you always have freedom of choice.
Jenny Holzer
#92. What urge will save us now that sex won't?
Jenny Holzer
#94. It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
Jenny Holzer
#95. It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.
Jenny Holzer
#96. James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.
Harold Holzer
#97. TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
Jenny Holzer
#98. HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM
AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,
MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,
DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.
Jenny Holzer
#99. IT'S NICE WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LIKE SOMEONE
AND, WITHOUT DECLARING YOURSELF,
DO WHAT'S POSSIBLE
TO FURTHER HIS HAPPINESS.
THIS CAN TAKE THE FORM OF GIFTS,
LOVELY FOOD, PUBLICITY, OR
ADVANCED WARNING.
Jenny Holzer
#100. There's a fine line between information and propaganda.
Jenny Holzer
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