Ceilings Quotes

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.

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

We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

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

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

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

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

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.

My earth is somebody's ceiling

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

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.

Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I am a ceiling fan, especially during rain.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

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.

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

Sometimes we need a wise guide to peel back the ceiling of our lives to remind us that infinity never places any limits on our skies.