Ceiling Quotes

#1. 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.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

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

Fran Lebowitz

#3. I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling.

Dylan Moran

#4. A vast skylight is cut into the ceiling, so she can fall asleep studying the stars. She doesn't know their real names, preferring mysteries to facts,

Menna Van Praag

#5. There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

Bill Johnson

#6. A single three-bladed fan turned slowly in the centre of the ceiling, barely disturbing the scorching air which filled the small prefabricated hut like an oven...

Kevin Cowdall

#7. 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.

Kenneth Chenault

#8. says- Last night, I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and thought to myself, Where the heck is the ceiling?

Mike Gregory

#9. In Cintra, as she remembered, an attractive man was one whose head reached the ceiling, whose shoulders were as broad as a doorway, who swore like a dwarf, roared like a buffalo and stank at thirty paces of horses, sweat and beer, regardless of what time of day or night it was.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#10. I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.

Groucho Marx

#11. 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

#12. He ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.)

Sheridan Hay

#13. 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

#14. Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.

Tom Hodgkinson

#15. 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 ...

Elizabeth Dole

#16. Believe you can define your life and yourself as so much more than any ceiling you were born under.

Elaina Marie

#17. Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else ...

Shelby Foote

#18. Even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Joseph O'Neill

#19. Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Lynda Barry

#20. A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

Ted Cruz

#21. You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.

Jeanne Ray

#22. Davey saw Violet climbing down to make the tea, and decided that he'd better get Grandpa off the ceiling. After all, they had company.

J.M. Kessler

#23. You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe lost walls should crack and fall down

Kahlil Gibran

#24. He leaned over and inhaled the pillow Gray had been on. Sick freak. She ought to suffocate him with it the moment he fell asleep. But Nolan lay there with his eyes open, staring at the ceiling. Murder's

Nikki Jefford

#25. They set off on the perfectly straight ley line, Ronan's gaze still directed up to his plane and to Chainsaw, a white bird and a black bird against the azure ceiling of the world.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. 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

#27. She had interesting cracks on her ceiling, which she had mentally enhanced and colored to make a virtual series of 723 abstracts.

Anne Charnock

#28. Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that.

Diana Gabaldon

#29. The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.

Charlie Cook

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

Alex Garland

#31. The ceiling in the mess was very low, not even eight feet. You can feel the weight of the West Wing above your head, and with the the weight of American memory.

David Frum

#32. 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 Kid

#33. 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

#34. Skill reaches the ceiling,
talent reaches the mountaintop,
excellence reaches the sky,
but genius reaches the stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. 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.

Stephen King

#36. We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#37. 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 Markoe

#38. 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

#39. Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada's search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they had nothing important to say that lay toward either the ceiling or the floor, or she would render them mute.

Holly Lisle

#40. What a beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling, lines, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins.

Herman Melville

#41. I am sick of four walls and a ceiling
I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

Richard Hovey

#42. The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard.

Joe Dunthorne

#43. I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")

Rikki Ducornet

#44. 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

Eddie Vedder

#45. Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

Anthony Burgess

#46. 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

#47. Was there anything more inspiring than being able to look up and see oneself surrounded by thousands of books all the way to the ceiling three stories above?

Elizabeth Camden

#48. She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.

Dennis Vickers

#49. Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

John Ortberg

#50. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling,

John Green

#51. 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.

Christopher Moore

#52. You prefer the bed on the opposite wall?"
"I prefer the bookshelf in the lower left corner of the room, and the ceiling fan not to be hanging over my head while I sleep."
"OCD?"
"Feng shui."
"Is it contagious?"
"Hardly anyone gets it.

Devon Monk

#53. Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling.

Michelle Hodkin

#54. 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.

Thom Yorke

#55. Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!"

-Tyson

Rick Riordan

#56. Awright - take 'im." He did not look down at the dog at all. He lay back on his bunk and crossed his arms behind his head and stared at the ceiling. From

John Steinbeck

#57. 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

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

Dan Savage

#59. The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

Claudia Gray

#60. Each night I lie awake and stare up at the stars and think, what the hell happened to my ceiling.

Robert Paul

#61. 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

#62. Step 7: Oak Wood Outline Build a row of oak wood on the 1st and the 4th block below the ceiling between the pillars. Follow the blue lines in the picture and do this on all four sides. Check out the 2nd picture to see how the tree house should look by now.

Johan Loof

#63. There's no ceiling ... just a continuation of improvement.

Chris Weidman

#64. 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.

Sylvia Plath

#65. Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Jane Harman

#66. 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

Oprah Winfrey

#67. I can't truly have stopped breathing while he talked, but broken ceiling fans push air with more purpose than my lungs did.

Heather Cocks

#68. Does it hurt?" I asked. "No. Just." He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, "I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now ... I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight.

John Green

#69. Raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

Robin Morgan

#70. Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#71. Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.

Thelma Golden

#72. It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.

Edith Wharton

#73. 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.

Roald Dahl

#74. Al brought his attention back down from the ceiling. "You really don't want to have sex with him? Why? What's wrong with him?

Kim Harrison

#75. There's simply no way around the limited ceiling of my own mind. It's

Chuck Klosterman

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

Heidi Roizen

#77. I lay back against the pillows and stared up at the ceiling. I hated myself. I thought, I am just a destructive force in the world. Look at all the bodies I leave behind me. *

Augusten Burroughs

#78. I didn't know what I would do. There was no way I could survive. I stared at my damp tent ceiling, feeling the frigid air against me, the frozen ground against my bottom, so cold my bare skin burned. I needed to get to the next trail-town, Mammoth Lakes. There was no one here to save me now.

Aspen Matis

#79. Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next ...

Patricia McCormick

#80. The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

Sharon Gless

#81. I am walking, he thought, exulting. Part of him knew that it was only a dream, but even the dream of walking was better than the truth of his bedchamber, walls and ceiling and door.

George R R Martin

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

James Nicoll

#83. There's no such thing as a glass ceiling for women. It's just a thick layer of men.

Laura A. Liswood

#84. Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

Todd Stocker

#85. 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

#86. When red wine has you nailed to the sofa and Glee is on TV,that would be a good time for a jet engine to crash through your ceiling alla Donnie Darko.

M.P. Thorp

#87. 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.

Joan Didion

#88. The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

Wayne Teasdale

#89. 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

#90. I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.

Stephen Curry

#91. This was more like it, a narrowed cluttered little shop stacked with books from floor to ceiling and four or five browsers taking their time- putting thumb marks on the new jackets. Nobody paid any attention to them.

Raymond Chandler

#92. I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

David Bromstad

#93. If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

Bill Johnson

#94. Muttering about caves, Jenks came in with my suitcase, his eyes roving the low ceiling. He dropped my bag by the door, tossed me the keys to the van, and headed out, flicking the light switch several times because he could.

Kim Harrison

#95. One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Paul Simon

#96. Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestess
looks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with
Heaven Earth and Time.

Daniel Peter Buckley

#97. He laughs and stares up at the ceiling, as though a higher power changed his life path. Maybe fate, luck - or him. His choice. He took the risk.

Krista Ritchie

#98. Starting out in Kid's Cove, Mangle is mostly endoskeleton, as his suit is in pretty rough shape. He does have a pink bowtie. Mangle will lunge at you from the ceiling, so keep an eye out for him! Balloon

Hayley May

#99. Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

G.K. Chesterton

#100. I have pointed rhythmically at the ceiling to the two-four beat of the same disco music I hated pointing at the ceiling to in 1977.

David Foster Wallace