It was a bad night to be about with such a feeling in one's heart. The rain was cold, pitiless and increasing. A damp, keen wind blew down the cross streets leading from the river. The fumes of the gas works seemed to fall with the rain. The roadway ...
Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold paper; Mr. Morse had recently announced a way of transmitting messages down metal wires. Had you me...
Resilience, thy name is Devine.
The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
My aunts still try to fatten me up.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.
As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.
I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.
Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.
On Sunday night, my husband makes a five-course family dinner.
The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
