Ceilinged Quotes

#1. The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

David McCord

#2. THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of the furniture shrank away into corners, battered and apologetic.

Jean Rhys

#3. I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Amos Oz

#4. Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

Jerry Saltz

#5. I will never be 'Ms. Perfect'.

Emma Michelle

#6. Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

Geoffrey Wood

#7. Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Brabantio: "You are a villain!"
Iago: "You are a senator!

William Shakespeare

#9. As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#11. This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. (page 37)

Ishmael Beah

#12. I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

Sonny Rollins

#13. Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Jean Froissart

#14. I'm sure I look like a drowned cat."
"You look fine. The wet look works for you."
I scowled. "Now I know you're lying.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

Bruce Rauner

#16. Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said - and saying it in just the right way - in order to achieve a desired end.

Neale Donald Walsch

#17. And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up!

Robin Williams

#18. Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Selznick

#19. You laugh at me becuse I am different. I laugh at you becuse your all the same.

Jonathan Davis