#ten

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! ↗

— Gene Cernan

#anchors #background #could #five #four

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverbs #sentences

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. ↗

— Iris Chang

#conditions #could #economic #great #often

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ↗

— George Chapman

#englishman #flattered #lamb #lion #threatened

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#any #being #context #costume #designer

The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world. ↗

— Peter Chernin

#billions #company #content #create #destination

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#going #holes #just #market #over

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#matters #nine #ought #out #proof

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones. ↗

— Ralph Stanley

#brother #fans #feel #gained #gotten

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#any #extent #given #know #man