"Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama." - Tony KushnerTweet
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit." - Ansel AdamsTweet
"I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history." - Rachel BilsonTweet
"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech." - James StockdaleTweet
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost." - M. Scott PeckTweet
"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history." - Nicolas ChamfortTweet
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." - Wendell BerryTweet
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." - Robert KennedyTweet
"I did not come to NASA to make history." - Sally RideTweet
"There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out." - Jeffrey KlugerTweet