The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Edmund Wilson

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Camille Paglia

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

Rowan Williams

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Jean Paul

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Karl Marx

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles de Gaulle

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

E. J. Hobsbawm

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

Mark Zuckerberg

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Mike Huckabee