Bettany Hughes Even the picturesque prehistoric settlements at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini were an exercise in problem-solving; white-washed homes and town halls built with an anti-earthquake technology still employed today, 3,500 years on. – Bettany Hughes Akrotiri Quotes Antiearthquake Quotes Built Quotes Employed Quotes Exercise Quotes Greek Quotes Halls Quotes Homes Quotes Island Quotes Picturesque Quotes Prehistoric Quotes Problemsolving Quotes Santorini Quotes Settlements Quotes Technology Quotes Town Quotes Whitewashed Quotes One of the flashpoints of the grand war between Athens and Sparta, a millennium after Helen first caused trouble for the Mediterranean world, was nearby Thassos. Thassos – Greece’s northernmost island, is pine-rich, honey-sweet, gold-bearing and picture-postcard perfect. It’s become this sort of strange competition about who’s in the coolest place, who’s in the coolest street. Suddenly we’re having to engage with all those social pressures. It’s helpful, I find, as a mother and a teacher, to say you’ve always got a choice.
HomeTim Vine So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said ‘Who’s speaking please?’ And a voice said ‘You are.’ – Tim Vine
Randall Cunningham You just can’t play with a brand-new ball. It’s virtually impossible. – Randall Cunningham
Joe Cocker I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn’t want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield. – Joe Cocker
Rebecca Sugar I admire ‘Adventure Time’ for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don’t, you can watch a fun cartoon. – Rebecca Sugar
Ash Sarkar I can’t help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society. – Ash Sarkar
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