quotes about Ceilings
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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
-- Albert Hadley -
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
-- Aldous Huxley -
There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.
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Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)
-- Alexandra IvySource : Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.128, Zebra Books
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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 IvySource : Alexandra Ivy (2011). “Darkness Everlasting”, p.330, Kensington Publishing Corp.
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I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
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You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.
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Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
-- Aretha Franklin -
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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
-- Bill Belichick -
If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.
-- Bob Corker -
We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.
-- Bon Scott -
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
-- C. J. CherryhSource : "Cyteen". Book by C. J. Cherryh, 1988.
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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 -
Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.
-- Charles BassSource : "Interview with Senator Kelly Ayotte, Rep. Charlie Bass". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 12, 2011.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
-- Charles Schumer -
There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.
-- Chris Weidman -
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Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars....
-- Colton DixonSource : Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016
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One person's ceiling is another person's floor.
-- Denis Waitley -
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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.
-- Don Dokken -
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 -
Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!
-- Emily Dickinson -
The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.
-- Eoin Colfer -
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Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
-- Helmut Jahn -
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.
-- Henry Rollins -
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 my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
-- Isaac MarionSource : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
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It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
-- James NicollSource : Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.
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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.
-- James Rosenquist -
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.
-- Janette RallisonSource : Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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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.
-- Jay Haas -
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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.
-- Jennifer Tilly -
I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
-- Jenny Downham -
I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?
-- Joe DunthorneSource : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.143, Penguin UK
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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 StephensSource : John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.45, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
-- Kara DioGuardi -
I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
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 -
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 -
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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.
-- Laura Kightlinger -
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
-- M. C. EscherSource : "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.
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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 -
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 -
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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.
-- Merrill MarkoeSource : Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press
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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.
-- Michael BeckwithSource : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 17, 2012
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We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling.
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I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.
-- Mick MulvaneySource : "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.
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It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
-- Mike LeeSource : "Republican Senator Wants Deeper Spending Cuts". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 08, 2011.
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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 WelchSource : "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.
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Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.
-- Rita Zahara -
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?
-- Sara Bareilles -
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.
-- Sarah MacLean -
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If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.
-- Sean Hannity -
I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.
-- Stephen Chbosky -
The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.
-- Wayne TeasdaleSource : Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.185, New World Library
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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.
-- William Weld -
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When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.
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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.
-- B.J. The Chicago KidSource : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
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When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, 'â€That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?
-- Carmen Dell'OreficeSource : "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels" by Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
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If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?
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If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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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.
-- Francois Cavanna -
The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house
-- Heidi Roizen -
As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.
-- Judith Hanson Lasater -
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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.
-- Megan Crane -
Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.
-- Paul S. Kemp -
Shared world has done some world building and brings (in the case of FR and SW) a big audience. With your own work, you're more creatively free. In a way, the shared world stuff has a high floor but a ceiling.
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I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall.
-- Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud -
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Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.
-- David Burge -
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.
-- Gina TorresSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- Maksim Chmerkovskiy