Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and lit...
I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's in.
I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
Christopher McCandless: I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.
Christopher McCandless: When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.
I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
Christopher Pike: Russian whizkid, what's your name? Chanko? Cherpov? Pavel Chekov: Ensign Chekov, Pavel Andreievich, sir.
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.
I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
