Ceilings Quotes - Page 4

• Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

  Ned Vizzini

  Bed, Teeth, Normal

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

  Jane Harman

  Successful, Men, Glasses

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

  Sean Hannity

  Debt, Vote, Congress

  "Hannity", Fox News, April 12, 2011.

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• But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

  Rufus Wainwright

  Wall, Biblical, Thinking

  Song: Jericho, Album: Out of the Game, 2012

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• 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 turn and run.

  Thom Yorke

  Real, Blow, Fake

  "Song: 'Fake Plastic Trees'". 1995.

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• Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Glasses, Cracks, Able

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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

  James Nicoll

  Cat, Wake Up, Leap

  Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.

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• This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

  Jim Goldberg

  Kids, Boys, Gun

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• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.

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• 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.

  Candace Bushnell

  Balls, Demand, Haunting

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• If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?

  Mike Royko

  Gay, Orange, Juice

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• ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Wall, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Tea, Foundation

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.34

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• Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.

  Rita Zahara

  Sky, Turns

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Swings, Fearless, Cobwebs

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

  Mark Rippetoe

  Training, Bars, Looks

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• 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

  Ambition, Agreement, Europe

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Hair

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.

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• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Use, Shooting

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• 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

  Dream, Night, Praying

  Song: Fit In, 1984

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• Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming off his best [offensive] season, but we still think there is some ceiling on him. He has outstanding makeup and calls a good game. [He's] a solid receiver with a plus arm, and he's going to be coming to camp with a chance to open some eyes.

  Theo Epstein

  Eye, Makeup, Thinking

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• Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, Book, Cutting

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• Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

  Denis Waitley

  Stars, Goal, Achievement

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• One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

  Paul Simon

  Men, Perspective, Another Man

  Song: One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor

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• Never have a ceiling on your income.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Income

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