Ceilings Quotes

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

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Reality, Awareness

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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• I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

  Kevin Spacey

  Responsibility, Break Through, Giving

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• Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

  Albert Hadley

  Rooms, Interior Design, Surface

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

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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• I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Glasses, Faces

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• Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

  Janette Rallison

  Eye, Sometimes, Lifts

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Dream, Black History

  The Independent, June 9, 1988.

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• Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Positive

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• Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars.

  Colton Dixon

  Stars

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016

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• Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Lying, Long

  Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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• When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Moving, Goal

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.161, Pelican Publishing

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• Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

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• Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

  Helmut Jahn

  Use, Indirect, Glare

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

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Sleep, Science, Space

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• Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

  Sandy Duncan

  Hard Work, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

  David Bromstad

  Dark, Thinking, Color

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• Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Beauty, Moving, Important

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• My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

  Mark Messier

  Hard Work, People, Jersey

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• If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fall, Principles, Ifs

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• Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

  Paul Molitor

  Character, Goal, Mind

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• America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

  Peter Welch

  Football, America, Political

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• You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

  Charles Simeon

  Faith, Prayer, Humble

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Kings, Pigs, Sea

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• 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.

  David Easton

  Feet, Giving, Want

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• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.

  Wavy Gravy

  Laughter, Pressure, Valve

  "Interview: Wavy Gravy : Saint Misbehavin'". Interview with Richard Whittaker, www.conversations.org. December 21, 2010.

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