Top 487 Ceiling Quotes & Sayings

There's nobody I can't guard. There's nothing. There's no ceiling.

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.

A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.

In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick stripe down his whip-like tail were still gray. He was crawling along the ceiling like a bat, wings held to make sharp angles and claws extended. It just about broke my creepy meter.

In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.

I am a ceiling fan, especially during rain.

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

I don't think anybody has a ceiling. Everybody can constantly improve.

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

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.

They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling.

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.

Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson

I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

I honestly felt like there was a ceiling for me that I was not able to break.

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.

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something? You look like we're both on the verge of an enormous joke." "Katsa, only you would consider the collapse of the ceiling a good joke.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

You can look at any industry and sector and then figure out how high is your glass ceiling. Do you want to diversify or do you want to penetrate the ceiling? Because the ones who break the glass ceiling are going to be big-time winners, but it will be a longer-term view on things and requires a lot more courage, a lot more guts.

I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

What people need to realize is that when I was elected and put in this role, I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as a leader.

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.

You might think that Social Security's family benefit maximum is what it sounds like, a straightforward dollar ceiling on the total amount that you, your spouse, and your children can receive on your earnings record and that the same ceiling would apply to everyone. But you'd be wrong. For starters, there's a rather weird and arguably unfair formula for calculating the family benefit maximum.

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.

The NBA playoffs have the highest ceiling in all of sports.

Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.

I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

There are no barriers, and there is no glass ceiling when you put in the work.

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

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt burden on our children and grandchildren, I think that requires a pretty serious discussion, robust debate.

We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

I never put a ceiling on myself, I never put a ceiling on my teammates or my team.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

Never have a ceiling on your income.

My earth is somebody's ceiling

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

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

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

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.

The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel's economy.