#eleven

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #fairies

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #eleventh-doctor #doctor-who

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#direct #eleven #good #only #writers

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#being #between #certain #consonants #constructed

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court. ↗

— Venus Williams

#business #called #company #court #design

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#eleven #finally #i #integrated #restaurant

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ↗

— Vance Havner

#dull #eleven #end #many #services

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#being #children #deal #eleven #god

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #courage