Ceilings Quotes - Page 8

• I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?

  Keith Donohue

  Book, Heart, Cities

  Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.88, Random House

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood on to the ruggedness of the road.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fall, Views, Asking

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• It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Sports, Eye

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Government, People

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• The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

  Stephen Fry

  Morning, Fall, Symphony

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• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wall

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• The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, United States, Doe

  "Smash the Ceiling". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2011.

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• Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1036, Dell

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• Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

  Arnold Lobel

  Book, Sky, Long

  Arnold Lobel, “Books To the Ceiling”

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• Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)

  Alexandra Ivy

  Dust, Vampire, Caves

  Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.128, Zebra Books

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• 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

  Dog, Sadness, Existential Angst

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• 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

  Wall, Juice, Mouths

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.37, Penguin

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• Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

  Juan Williams

  Party, Office, Political

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• Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Jail, Pet

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1055, Simon and Schuster

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• What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Circles, Two

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Writing, Sleep, Shoes

  "Valentine for Ernest Mann". Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952.

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• It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and over the stars until I can find God, really see God, and know once and for all that everything I've believed my whole life is true, and real. Or, not even everything. Not even half. Just the part about someone or something bigger than us who doesn't lose track. I want to believe the stories, that there really is someone who would search the whole mountainside just to find that one lost thing that he loves, and bring it home.

  Sara Zarr

  Stars, Real, Believe

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• I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?

  Joe Dunthorne

  Winning, Self, Looks

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm used to it ... I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

  Leila Aboulela

  Moving, Routine, Looks

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Nice, Bed, Quiet

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Fall, Mean

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• Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

  Sarah MacLean

  Lord, Divine, Strikes

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• The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized.

  John Stephens

  Space, Giving, Caves

  John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.45, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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