Ceilings Quotes - Page 8

• Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

  Bill Belichick

  Basketball, Character, Nba

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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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• The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor.

  Bill Maher

  Wall, Differences, Islam

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• Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspirational, Running, Matter

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Growing Up, Years, Jamaica

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Girl, Boys, Numbers

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• The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

  Claudia Gray

  Wall, Book, Dark

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• I’m so jealous,” she whispered, and he blinked.
  “Of what?”
  Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes he’d ever seen. “You’re so alive, Lore. There’s fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.

  Larissa Ione

  Jealous, Eye, Fire

  "Ecstasy Unveiled". Book by Larissa Ione, 2010.

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• But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

  John Green

  Rocks, Sea, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.170, Penguin UK

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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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• As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Dark, Views

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• You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

  Barry Lyga

  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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• She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

  Sarah MacLean

  Jealous, Long, Water

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• Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is as sharp as a neon ceiling. Ethics may not be situational, but feelings are. We learn to adjust, and, over time, the stars we use to guide ourselves come to reside within rather than without.

  Robert Crais

  Stars, Light, Feelings

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• Trent, do you have any weapons? Like a gun?” He looked at me in disgust. “You’re here to protect me,” he said as he closed the distance between us and stood beside me. “You didn’t bring a weapon?” “Yeah, I brought a weapon,” I snapped as I brought my splat gun out and aimed it at the ceiling where the sounds were coming from. “I just thought that since you’re a freaking murderer you might have a gun, too (...)

  Kim Harrison

  Distance, Gun, Sound

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