Ceilings Quotes - Page 11

• I want to talk about one barrier that has not been broken. I want you to support Hillary [Clinton] for me, too, because I want to break a ceiling. I am tired of the stranglehold that women have had on the job of presidential spouse.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Tired, Broken

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. October 24, 2015.

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• 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.

  George Saunders

  Self, Culture, Assumption

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

  Charles Williams

  Baseball, Rainy Day, Weather

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

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Get Better, Wells

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• There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, House, Literature

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying I want you to hang me by my tits from your ceiling and bite my ass. You know what I mean? That's what it says to me anyway.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Mean, Animal, House

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Kings, Book, School

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• [People] are looking at the politicians as being all talk, no action. They talk the big game, then they go to Washington, they look at the magnificent hallowed halls as you would say, or the beautiful vaulted ceilings and they say, "darling, I've arrived," to their loved one or their wife. They say "darling, I've arrived" and all of a sudden they become nothing.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Games, People

  Source: www.economist.com

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• There's a ceiling when it comes to genetics. I'm a huge believer in the mind. I feel like anticipation is a key to the success of the game and I feel that's where I thrive. Being able to anticipate, prepare and live in the details of the game.

  Will Compton

  Keys, Games, Mind

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Hillary Clinton knows, as I did know, as my women members know - that a woman being elected to a position, it's not about what it means to that woman. It's not about what it means to Hillary to be the first president. It's about what it means to all of the women in America, that a woman has broken the ultimate marble ceiling and that anything is possible for them and their daughters - and their sons. It's about sons, too.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Daughter, Mean, Son

  Source: www.politico.com

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

  Jay Mohr

  Class, Middle, Allure

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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

  Jay Mohr

  Acting, Seems

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• 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.

  Jay Mohr

  Crystals, Brilliant, Stigma

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Pride, America, Tonight

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.

  James Stewart

  Love You, Play, Judging

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.

  Hillary Clinton

  Giving Up, Writing, Together

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling.

  Clayton Christensen

  Wall, Moving, Data

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.

  Harry Reid

  Games, Work Out, President

  "Reid: Tie debt ceiling, fiscal cliff" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Started underneath the floor,
  Now my money through the ceiling.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Song: The Plan, Album: O.N.I.F.C., 2012

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• I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She's a sweet daddy's girl. She's premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.

  J. B. Smoove

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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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

  Wall, Glasses, West

  "For Women In Saudi Arabia, Gender Segregation More Like A 'Glass Wall'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 13, 2015.

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• Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!

  Mark Mason

  Tired, Cutting, Night

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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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

  Crazy, Sleep, Laying Down

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• You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Country, War, Men

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, July 22, 2005.

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• Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.

  Dane Cook

  Turtles, Nuts, Games

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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