Quotes about Ceiling

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor. Votes: 2

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? Votes: 1

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. Votes: 1

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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! Votes: 1

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! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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?' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

My earth is somebody's ceiling Votes: 0

Not every wall needs a ceiling Votes: 0

Don't put a ceiling on yourself. Votes: 0

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor. Votes: 0

Never have a ceiling on your income. Votes: 0

One person's ceiling is another person's floor. Votes: 0

One man's ceiling is another man's floor. Votes: 0

One man's floor is another woman's ceiling . Votes: 0

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement. Votes: 0

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling Votes: 0

I am a ceiling fan, especially during rain. Votes: 0

We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. Votes: 0

Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars.... Votes: 0

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling. Votes: 0

Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson Votes: 0

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain! Votes: 0

Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling. Votes: 0

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself. Votes: 0

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling. Votes: 0

Started underneath the floor, Now my money through the ceiling. Votes: 0

I don't think anybody has a ceiling. Everybody can constantly improve. Votes: 0

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house Votes: 0

Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing. Votes: 0

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings. Votes: 0

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. Votes: 0

The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling. Votes: 0

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling. Votes: 0

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. Votes: 0

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling. Votes: 0

I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall. Votes: 0

There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting. Votes: 0

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling. Votes: 0

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling. Votes: 0

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there. Votes: 0

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? Votes: 0

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'? Votes: 0

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem. Votes: 0

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions. Votes: 0

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. Votes: 0

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats. Votes: 0

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear. Votes: 0

A helicopter is just like a flying ceiling fan. My love is the journey of the breeze. Votes: 0

When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling. Votes: 0

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men. Votes: 0

If your wife's hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan, you might be a redneck. Votes: 0

I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball. Votes: 0

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. Votes: 0

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall Votes: 0

I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling. Votes: 0

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself. Votes: 0

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right Votes: 0

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling. Votes: 0

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling. Votes: 0

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling. Votes: 0

If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair? Votes: 0

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills. Votes: 0

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement Votes: 0

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling. Votes: 0

Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner! Votes: 0

Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling. Votes: 0

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass. Votes: 0

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. Votes: 0

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. Votes: 0

For when you look at the ceiling, or down at the floor, when the trouble's before you, you're begging for more. Votes: 0

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling? Votes: 0

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way. Votes: 0

I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing. Votes: 0

Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break. Votes: 0

The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized. Votes: 0

The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes. Votes: 0

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with. Votes: 0

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet. Votes: 0

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads! Votes: 0

Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office. Votes: 0

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. Votes: 0

To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader! Votes: 0

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. Votes: 0

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger. Votes: 0

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise. Votes: 0

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die. Votes: 0

I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. Votes: 0

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. Votes: 0

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. Votes: 0

The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor. Votes: 0

Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn't quite discern which. Votes: 0

The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents. Votes: 0

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. Votes: 0

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him. Votes: 0

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling." Votes: 0

Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling. Votes: 0

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through. Votes: 0

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling. Votes: 0

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture. Votes: 0

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to. Votes: 0

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly. Votes: 0

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. Votes: 0

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling. Votes: 0

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. Votes: 0

There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do. Votes: 0

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions. Votes: 0

I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling. Votes: 0

I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic. Votes: 0

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance. Votes: 0

Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestesslooks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with Heaven Earth and Time. Votes: 0

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious. Votes: 0

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house. Votes: 0

The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling. Votes: 0

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . . Votes: 0

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls... Votes: 0

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling Votes: 0

I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else. Votes: 0

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that? Votes: 0

The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall. Votes: 0

Why? I say, so quietly that it comes out sounding like a tiny, tired sighNobody wants to be mediocre. Her shadow on the ceiling is monstrous, a witch in profile. Votes: 0

There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin. Votes: 0

Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light. Votes: 0

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me. Votes: 0

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song! Votes: 0

I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies. Votes: 0

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race. Votes: 0

Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief. Votes: 0

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world. Votes: 0

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling. Votes: 0

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason. Votes: 0

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. Votes: 0

If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice? Votes: 0

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling. Votes: 0

As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it. Votes: 0

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do? Votes: 0

Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling. Votes: 0

We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited. Votes: 0

The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling. Votes: 0

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books. Votes: 0

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point. Votes: 0

All things are possible to those who believe in themselves. Live a life without limits. Believe in yourself. Break through the ceiling of limitation. Develop high confidence and connect yourself to total success. Votes: 0

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government. Votes: 0

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are. Votes: 0

When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything. Votes: 0

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution. Votes: 0

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings. Votes: 0

She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran. Votes: 0

There's a hurricane coming to Florida, and there will be high winds. I should probably turn off my ceiling fans, to try to mitigate the billions of dollars in damages the storm will incur." Votes: 0

Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling! Votes: 0

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling. Votes: 0

She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again. Votes: 0

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something. Votes: 0

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. Votes: 0

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. Votes: 0

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them. Votes: 0

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that. Votes: 0

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself Votes: 0