Top 91 Quotes About Ceilings
#1. In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#2. Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
Helmut Jahn
#3. Sing, Muse, of high, moulded ceilings and built-in bookcases chockablock with hardcovers!
Garth Risk Hallberg
#4. 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 Marion
#5. 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.
Barack Obama
#6. In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.
Mitch Albom
#7. Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
Albert Hadley
#8. Lovely high ceilings,' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.
Phoebe Stone
#10. There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;
Charles Dickens
#11. Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?
Gene Logsdon
#12. The hall they entered had arched ceilings over twenty feet high that were painted in tromp l'oeil, basically a bunch of butt-naked baby angels pointing at each other.' (Carlos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?"
"Has he?"
"Yes, look."
"I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings."
"Well, he has, Pooh."
"Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change.
A.A. Milne
#14. In all societies, both women and men are powerfully conditioned to repress the daily realities of (sexual harassment and workplace glass ceilings) and to collude with the rest of society in keeping these dimensions of shared experiences hidden.
William Keepin
#15. In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.
Rick Perlstein
#16. There are no more ceilings over my dreams ... They have no limit; they limitless! They are extra-large!
Israelmore Ayivor
#17. Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.
Kathy Hepinstall
#18. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.
Stephen King
#20. She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
Sonya Hartnett
#21. In spite of its nine-foot ceilings, the mahogany wainscoting and warped floorboards made the antiquated house feel claustrophobic, a sailing ship lost at sea, forever rolling this way and that.
Kelly Oliver
#22. I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#23. The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.
Donna Tartt
#24. The floors were like marble chessboards, and the ceilings were like cakes.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#25. They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car, and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower!
John Green
#26. This is my greatest obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. 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, it all collapses.
Isaac Marion
#28. In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above ... so I never have to go upstairs.
Steven Wright
#29. The giant console, high ceilings, and glass windows mean nothing than love from the heart.
Auliq Ice
#30. I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
Nancy Gibbs
#31. When a philosopher wants high ceilings, he goes outside'. He doesn't buy an oversize house that requires massive amounts of dwindling resources to heat in the winter
Chad Harbach
#33. Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women's issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.
James Rozoff
#35. I happen to find ceilings much lovelier than the night sky myself. Sometimes I just stare at them for hours and wonder what could be up there.
Bauvard
#36. The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my purity.
Celeste Simone
#37. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!
John Green
#38. Gwenllian began to laugh and clap her hands. The laugh, a song itself, echoed off the ceilings. "Shut her up, someone," Ronan said. "Before I do.
Maggie Stiefvater
#39. If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.
David Easton
#40. There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.
Christine Elise
#41. Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.
Kris Carr
#42. I can safely say that there are dozens of places on 'Titania' to watch a film with friends. I would estimate there's something like 50 televisions on board, some of which are very big-screen, some of which drop out of ceilings on the outdoor decks.
John Caudwell
#43. American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.
Sascha Radetsky
#44. He swore quietly and shook his head. He tried to see some logic in the situation. His deep, angry growl echoed in the room, multiplied by the walls and ceilings. "Damn!" Jatred pounded his fist on his thigh. "She fooled me again.
A.O. Peart
#45. And if you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do.
Lemony Snicket
#46. It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.
Pamela Anderson
#47. 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.
Suzy Kassem
#48. The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades
Rohinton Mistry
#49. And Lord knows there are more than enough rooms to love someone properly, even if they don't all have floors or ceilings.
Damon Suede
#50. Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.
Michelle Bachelet
#51. We were in a long hall of some sort, very old-looking. High, high ceilings. Gothic in the very definition of the word.
Vlad smiled. Enter freely and of your own will, isn't that what I'm supposed to say?
Jeaniene Frost
#52. Ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky.
Markus Zusak
#53. I was his "little girl with the William Burroughs mind," his "secret fairy," "female Frank Zappa" and "window onto a magical world." He said I fell to earth, leaving wing-marks on the ceilings of our dreams.
Jalina Mhyana
#54. You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It's finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.
James Luceno
#55. I would touch its walls with my fingers and its ceilings with my looks, I would invoke the powers of writing, I would bathe my soul in the rivers of unknown thoughts that genius unrolls when surrounded by the song of all the books its heart receives the marvelous measures of its own speech ...
Helene Cixous
#56. 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
#57. The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.
Wayne Teasdale
#58. I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.
Stephen Curry
#59. One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
Paul Simon
#60. Raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
Robin Morgan
#61. It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
James Nicoll
#62. The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house
Heidi Roizen
#63. 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
#64. People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It's boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you're a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.
Mark Sutton
#65. 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
#66. There's no ceiling ... just a continuation of improvement.
Chris Weidman
#67. 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
#68. Maybe its not necessarily a dead-end job; maybe more along the lines of a rear-end one.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#69. Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
Aretha Franklin
#70. The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.
Peter Schiff
#71. 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 Beckwith
#73. Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars ...
Colton Dixon
#74. Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
Aldous Huxley
#75. Started underneath the floor,
Now my money through the ceiling.
Wiz Khalifa
#77. One person's ceiling is another person's floor.
Denis Waitley
#80. I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.
Kobe Bryant
#81. 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
#82. If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.
Sean Hannity
#84. 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
#85. When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
Chinua Achebe
#86. Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.
Rita Zahara
#88. I don't think anybody has a ceiling. Everybody can constantly improve.
Chip Kelly
#89. 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
#90. Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.
David Burge
