Ceiling quotes:

Send

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? -- M. C. Escher
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor. -- Bill Shankly
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. -- Nancy Pelosi
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. -- Chuck Tanner
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling. -- Wavy Gravy
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift. -- Kevin Spacey
Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough! -- Sandy Duncan
I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! -- Humphrey Lyttelton
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for. -- Nate Berkus
A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.' -- Gilbert Gottfried
I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter. -- Andrew Solomon
Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken. -- Jennifer Granholm
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. -- Eliot Spitzer
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face. -- Peter L. Bergen
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. -- Peter Welch
I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me. -- Michael Lee-Chin
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?' -- John Mayer
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. -- Bayard Taylor
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. -- Martin Filler
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. -- Grover Norquist
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. -- Warren Farrell
As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. -- Alice Walker
You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.' -- Frank Miller
I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean. -- Danny Pino
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it. -- Tony Kushner
My earth is somebody's ceiling -- Sara Bareilles
Not every wall needs a ceiling -- Munia Khan
Don't put a ceiling on yourself. -- Oprah Winfrey
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor. -- Aldous Huxley
Never have a ceiling on your income. -- T. Harv Eker
One person's ceiling is another person's floor. -- Denis Waitley
One man's ceiling is another man's floor. -- Paul Simon
One man's floor is another woman's ceiling . -- Youns Hussein
There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement. -- Chris Weidman
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling -- Bill Belichick
I am a ceiling fan, especially during rain. -- Demetri Martin
We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. -- Michael Beckwith
Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars.... -- Colton Dixon
Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling. -- Denis Waitley
Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson -- Rick Riordan
Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain! -- Emily Dickinson
Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling. -- Rita Zahara
He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself. -- Rohinton Mistry
In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling. -- Anatoly Berezovoy
Started underneath the floor, Now my money through the ceiling. -- Wiz Khalifa
I don't think anybody has a ceiling. Everybody can constantly improve. -- Chip Kelly
The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house -- Heidi Roizen
Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing. -- David Burge
If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings. -- Bob Corker
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. -- Andrew Cuomo
The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling. -- Wayne Teasdale
I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling. -- Kathryn Bigelow
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. -- Jesse Jackson
If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling. -- Sean Hannity
I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall. -- Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud
There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting. -- Jay Mohr
There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling. -- Bill Johnson
The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling. -- Indra Nooyi
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there. -- Janette Rallison
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? -- Chinua Achebe
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'? -- Robin Morgan
We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem. -- Mark Zandi
Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions. -- Paul S. Kemp
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. -- Helen Clark
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats. -- Aretha Franklin
There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear. -- Alex Garland
A helicopter is just like a flying ceiling fan. My love is the journey of the breeze. -- Jarod Kintz
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling. -- Kara DioGuardi
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men. -- Jane Harman
If your wife's hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball. -- Stephen Curry
I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. -- Laura Kightlinger
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall -- Rufus Wainwright
I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling. -- Dylan Moran
--
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right -- Aldous Huxley
It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling. -- James Nicoll
I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling. -- Groucho Marx
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling. -- Charles Schumer
--
I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills. -- Terri Sewell
Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement -- Denis Waitley
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling. -- Fran Lebowitz
Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling. -- Paul Molitor
I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass. -- Richard Hovey
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. -- Dan Savage
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. -- Kami Garcia
For when you look at the ceiling, or down at the floor, when the trouble's before you, you're begging for more. -- Brian M. Boyce
So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling? -- Sara Bareilles
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing. -- Kobe Bryant
Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break. -- Hillary Clinton
The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized. -- John Stephens
The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes. -- Pawan Mishra
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. -- Chuck Tanner
I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out. -- Kim Wilde
My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with. -- Mark Messier
I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet. -- Stephen Chbosky
Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads! -- Todd Stocker
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. -- C. J. Cherryh
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. -- Hillary Clinton
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office. -- Juan Williams
Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. -- Charles Bass
To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader! -- Israelmore Ayivor
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. -- Mike Lee
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger. -- Helen Oyeyemi
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. -- Jack Kerouac
That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on. -- Leila Sales
I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise. -- Jay Mohr
In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die. -- Frankie Boyle
I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. -- Alexandra Ivy
Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints. -- Shonda Rhimes
It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall. -- Rodney Mullen
How did you-" Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened. -- Maria V. Snyder
The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God. -- Charles Simeon
First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.' -- Bill Maher
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. -- Calvin Trillin

Send