Ceiling Quotes

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor. (Bill Shankly)
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? View quote
M. C. Escher
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. View quote
Jesse Jackson
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. View quote
Arnold Lobel
She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran. View quote
Thom Yorke
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
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. View quote
Roald Dahl
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way. (Alexander McCall Smith)
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling. View quote
Dylan Moran
Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling. View quote
Greta Thunberg
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson. View quote
Rick Riordan
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it. View quote
Tony Kushner
Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood on to the ruggedness of the road. View quote
Ghassan Kanafani
There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear. View quote
Alex Garland
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. View quote
James Surowiecki
We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race. (William Weld)
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. View quote
Mick Mulvaney
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise. View quote
Edward Frenkel
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. View quote
Charles Simeon
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. View quote
David Bromstad