Ceiling Quotes - page 5

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself. (Carmen Dell'Orefice)
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. View quote
Dan Savage
I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything. View quote
Eddie Huang
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.' View quote
Gilbert Gottfried
I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it? View quote
Humphrey Carpenter
They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling. View quote
Heather O'Rourke
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there. View quote
Janette Rallison
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good. View quote
Jay Carney
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. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something. View quote
Josh Duhamel
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office. (Juan Williams)
There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them. View quote
Juice Newton
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling. View quote
Kara DioGuardi
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. View quote
Katherine Jenkins
I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. View quote
Laura Kightlinger
We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem. View quote
Mark Zandi
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. View quote
Martin Filler
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies. View quote
Merrill Markoe
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for. View quote
Nate Berkus
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali. (Poppy Delevingne)
You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house. View quote
Paula Yates
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. View quote
Sharon Gless
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther. View quote
Sharon Gless
Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly. View quote
Toks Olagundoye