Ceilings Quotes - Page 7

• The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Rain, Towers, Gutters

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• I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

  Mick Mulvaney

  Would Be, Debt, Bunch

  "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

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• He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Spit

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.698, Vintage

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• You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?” Al said in wonder. “At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!” he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. “Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Sweet, Communication

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• In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

  Dan Savage

  Agreement, Numbers, Adoption

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• Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Running, Motivation

  Aldous Huxley, Grover Cleveland Smith (1969). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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• I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Party, College, Glasses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Book, Thinking, Office

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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 take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Glasses

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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 landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Couple, Husband, People

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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 not to.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Glasses, Glass Ceiling

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• I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Happy Life, Night

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• If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this world will be a challenge because the walls, ceilings and floors that protected people are also disappearing. That is what I mean when I say "it is a 401(k) world." Government will do less for you. Companies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits much more. Just showing up will not cut it.

  Thomas Friedman

  Wall, Mean, Cutting

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• Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

  Jay Carney

  America, Pay, Bills

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 4, 2011.

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• You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. “I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, Eye, Important

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• As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Bed, Bigger

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.18, Hamilton Books

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• A massive fir, it rose to nearly touch the ceiling at the far end of the ballroom. When Will asked Charlotte how on earth it had gotten in there, she had only waved her hands and said something about Magnus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Rose, Earth

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.

  Ally Carter

  Fall, Men, Fire

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• When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke's commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink. The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.

  Bill Bryson

  Dark, Men, Dukes

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

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Glasses, Trying, Break

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• Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Lying, Coffins, Alive

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• I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. September 2006.

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• 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.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Political, Debt, Able

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• Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

  Bill Belichick

  Basketball, Character, Nba

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• So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

  Sara Bareilles

  Feelings, Earth, Capture

  Song: Chasing The Sun, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013

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