Ceiling Quotes
309 quotes by 265 authors
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I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that…
— Peter Bergen
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Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.
— Charles Bass
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The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the…
— Gilbert Parker
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If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things)…
— Ken Robinson
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Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all…
— Joan Didion
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The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.
— Charles Simeon
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming…
— John Muir
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There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.
— Chris Weidman
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I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point…
— Humphrey Lyttelton
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I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last…
— Ishmael Beah
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There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a…
— Ronald Reagan
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A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The…
— Gilbert Gottfried
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Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to…
— Jennifer Granholm
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
— Wavy Gravy
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I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
— Andrew Cuomo
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I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
— M.C. Escher
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
— Gary Hamel
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to…
— Eddie Huang
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
— Jesse Jackson
Who Wrote These Ceiling Quotes
265 authors contributed a total of 309 Ceiling Quotes, led by these top contributors: