Ceiling Quotations

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.

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.

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

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.

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

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.

I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

We still worry about next year, with fierce competition at the value end of the market, and...still look for a ceiling of around 800 million pounds on (fiscal year profits).

United Tech would look at GE's offer as a ceiling and they would be below that.

Women whose math and physical science skills are marginal would choose to go into another school, whereas the women who are really strong in those areas are very confident and know they can compete, ... An awful lot of the glass ceiling is because women choose to stay away from the fields where they could excel. I think sometimes they might feel like they're going to fail and they don't want to set themselves up for that.

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

When they went back in there, them people in there were a foot from the ceiling on mattresses, ... They couldn't get them out.

Like in the pilot, ... I see Jesse (Sam's girlfriend) on the ceiling burning. Obviously she's not on the ceiling burning, but still I had to lay down and look up, start yelling and screaming, and they set fire around me and had me run out of the room.

Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He chooses his favorite and takes a holographic RFID badge with a Philips ICODE chip. When he goes into the examination room, he waves the badge at the scanning equipment, and the walls and ceiling come to life with animations, accompanied by music and other sounds. It keeps him relaxed and it's a great way to give him instructions. When it's time for him to hold his breath, he sees a cartoon character holding his own breath!

She had most of the original pressed metal ceiling tiles.

She probably would have been predominantly in a separate classroom all day long with students that would not be able to perform academically in a regular classroom. She would have had a ceiling put on her potential.

Mr. President, that whimsical English professor, Dr. Parkinson, should formulate another Parkinson's law relating to the public debt since it so closely parallels his law on bureaucratic growth. Just as spending will always reach and overtake revenues so the public debt will constantly pierce the ceiling and finally go into orbit.

Of course, there is a ceiling on how high the rating can go. I just can't see it from here.

One of the biggest problems we have in cleaning our homes is getting to the high spots like ceiling fans, plant shelves, air-conditioning units and vents.

If we had a ceiling cap on appraisals, we would see those tax breaks for landowners and property owners. If I have to go to Austin to lobby for Midland County, I don't mind doing that.

I felt I have a lot more potential in baseball. I've done everything I could possibly try to do to get better as a football player. I've invested hours and hours and hours, and I feel that I may have reached my peak with that sport. In baseball, I feel that the ceiling is higher and I have a lot more room to grow.

He managed to cut his way through the ceiling of the building, and I'm not sure what he used, ... We consider him dangerous. He had been gone three hours before they found out. We are still investigating what happened.

We sweep the hangars at least three times a week, and more if it's windy, because the ceiling begins to come down. Our objective there is to make sure that, when people take their airplanes out, they don't have junk all over the top of them.

We thought we had it controlled. Then Sunday, oh gosh, it was terrible. Those ceiling tiles started falling upstairs, and you could hear them when they hit the floor.

There aren't a lot of guys in the league who can bring a whole dugout to the top steps. He's definitely one of those guys. He's got a tremendous ceiling -- that's all I can say.

Unless they break through the brass ceiling of academia by writing best-selling books, like Harold Bloom or Alan Dershowitz, or go to Washington to make policy like Henry Kissinger, college professors can only aspire to limited public recognition.

We make it very clear to employees that you are allowed to advance and there is no glass ceiling that prevents them to advance because of their heritage. We have had people go from our fields to our office.

He was like a teacher in a classroom. He just wanted to get his message across. If we did something wrong, he'd show discomfort and disappointment. It wasn't like he was jumping to the ceiling and raising cain.

He didn't locate his stuff great against us. But he's still got great stuff. ? I've seen him for the last three years. He's got the highest ceiling of any pitcher in the conference.

I was just as upset when I saw the inside of this building as I was when I saw the damage in my own neighborhood after the hurricane. It looked like a funnel came down inside the building. There was insulation, ceiling tiles, wires and other debris everywhere. It just broke my heart.

Joey D had a little rude awakening to the big leagues last year. But the kid has a lot of talent and a tremendous ceiling ahead of him. We're hopefully going to help him reach it the best we can. I know where I was right out of college, and I wasn't where he's at.

Josh just blew the ceiling off the place,

It began in the back room in the ceiling of the poultry shop, but the cause and the origin of the fire is still under investigation. The owner was on the premises when the fire began.

It appears it started in a space near the ceiling level in the first floor,

I think the biggest one was the NBA three. I don?t know how many seconds were left on the (shot) clock, but I think it almost hit the ceiling ? I think the momentum was in their favor at that point and that changed it.

I think the balloons should hang from the ceiling and drop down.

I think we'd like to see his ceiling or find his niche,

I think an OPEC price ceiling of US$40-US$50 a barrel is favorable for the organization's members.

I think an OPEC price ceiling of $40-$50 a barrel is favorable for the organization's members.

I think there is a ceiling on all this, but I don't know what it is. You have those animal issues.

I saw a small flame coming out of a window, but within two minutes the whole ceiling was engulfed.

Paul happens to get there at that time, and he reaches for Lauren. Then the entire ceiling collapses, so everyone thinks Sheila is dead.

Someone gave the guy a chance to move from assistant to head coach. That's where women run into that glass ceiling and get discriminated against.

It feels like a mainline jet. The inside height from floor to ceiling is over 6-and-a-half feet, so a tall person doesn't have to scrunch down.

We can't get at the ceiling without draining it and building scaffolding. This is a huge project. It is always a big deal when you drain a pool. A large part of the expense is to build and then take down the scaffolding.

We were looking at the space when we were designing the whole suite of galleries, and we noticed that the ceiling was so tremendously high that we could easily make two floors of it. So what we did -- instead of the original idea of mixing decorative arts and paintings from the 12th century onward -- we have more or less separated the decorative arts from the paintings.

Value' almost by definition has a ceiling on it.

We have always known what Tony Armas' ceiling is. When he does put it together we would much rather have him put it together here rather than somewhere else.

We needed to screen off some ground floor offices, which have wall to ceiling windows, and to create a visual focal point for the new home of the revenue department.

When we restored Grand Central, we had to spend over $1 million just to clean the tar and nicotine stains off the ceiling and even more to scrub them off the walls. So, of course, after spending that kind of money we weren't going to let anybody smoke anywhere in the building.

We played well enough to win this game. As a team we have a significant ceiling to shoot for. There is a lot of room for this team to grow. I'm pleased with how we played. If we played this well the first three weeks we would have a different record from 7-5.

This would enable the authority to set a ceiling on the amounts it is willing to insure,

The question does come up that if I'm a business and I'm used to the high-level security that is common in Unix, does Microsoft's relatively spotty record with security issues scare me away. And is that going to create some kind glass ceiling above which Microsoft cannot proceed?

This startling new data shows that in seven of the ten industries studied, the wage gap between male and female managers widened between 1995 and 2000, ... It's compelling evidence that the glass ceiling remains a powerful obstacle to women in the workforce, and it suggests things may be getting worse, not better.

The fact that the President is calling for still more tax cuts at the same time the Congress is being asked to add $800 billion to the Federal debt ceiling is beyond reckless-it places in jeopardy our future economic strength and the economic security of all Americans.

We only put limits on it because we have a limited physical space. It's usually floor to ceiling art.

When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.

With a young kid with the kind of ceiling he's got -- if he makes this team, he's going to be a big contributor on this team. He's not going to be a middle-of-the-road or long guy or whatever.

We have shattered the glass ceiling theory, and I hope women will seize the moment to become active in civil and political affairs,

The prevailing idea among member countries is to maintain the official production ceiling of the organization.

Two percent is not a ceiling for 10-year yields in Japan as deflation ended and the economy is expanding.

We all went into the bathroom and the pressure dropped immediately. I could feel it in my ears. After about two minutes the ceiling fell and the lights went out.

The organization is now producing 2 million barrels a day over its official production ceiling of 28 million b/d.

There is still some resistance in churches, there is a glass ceiling to calling women as senior pastors,

We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet.

We will be getting a new roof, ceiling and floor. Everything damaged will be replaced.

We feel like there's a bit of a glass ceiling in San Francisco. We're full out -- we're so ... driven but, and I may be wrong, it seems like there's very little industry here.

We could take the movie around as well, and not just be playing as the Flaming Lips as a rock band. I'm thinking of taking it to theaters and having it be an experience where we bring in giant sound systems, smoke machines, Christmas lights, s--- falls on you from the ceiling and you can smoke pot and do whatever you want. There's something about the communal experience while something intense and unexpected is happening. I'm sure it will come out on DVD and there'll be a soundtrack, but that isn't the real experience.

Currently we have construction job levels reaching toward the ceiling but manufacturing jobs are virtually at the floor. With hardly any room to fall further, it doesn't seem likely that problems in housing and in construction will spread to manufacturing this time.

Andy asked if I would put stars on the ceiling because he's on his back most of the time.

I wanted the ceiling mural to be very colorful, happy and full of hope, and the murals on the walls to have the more difficult issues that we were facing at the time and still facing today.

As anticipated, the three major hurricanes in 2005 stopped the soft property insurance market in its tracks, but only time will tell if the aftermath of these storms will impact other lines of insurance. Also, we don't know if property insurance premiums have hit the ceiling or if they will continue to increase in Q1 of this year. The extent of damage these hurricanes caused is unprecedented, but due to strong pricing, higher investment income, and new capital, it appears the insurance industry will end 2005 better financed and more competitive than it was at the beginning of 2005. Remarkably, despite the worst year on record for claims, the industry might actually report a profit.

That's imposing a ceiling of sorts on any rally. But the good news is that at the end of next week, tax-loss related selling may abate dramatically.

That's huge, pretty impressive. That doesn't happen very often. It's rare and obviously it was a compulsory meet, so he was kind of pushing the ceiling a little bit.

This allows there to be no ceiling on the test we get a measure of what the students truly know.

This oversight board is not just a board made up of people who will rubber-stamp the decisions of the Transportation Trust Fund Authority. This oversight board will have the statutory authority to not only oversee the TTFA finances but to make sure our debt ceiling and our capital program are in line with what we said it would be.

There were a couple of drum licks and then a big blast, ... The sparks, they hit that ceiling and they scattered.

There is now a clear minimum flight ceiling of 2,000 feet,

This is what we call the outside room the ceiling that is yellow for the sun the blue for the sky and green for the grass all the equipment you see was furnished by Chevron.

At exactly 5:30, because I was watching my watch very closely, I just felt the entire building shaking and it looked like the entire ceiling just moved,

A ceiling in the ballroom came crashing down.

It was called in as a chimney fire with possible extension to the ceiling. It had extended to the ceiling when I got there. There was quite a bit of damage to roof and some water damage.

It is unfair to spend millions of dollars in tax breaks that benefit corporations importing Chinese ceiling fans as well as Starbucks.

It looks like a fun house. There is not a wall, floor or ceiling that's straight.

It's clear there's a lot of room for improvement, there's no inherent ceiling we're hitting up on.

I've had 16 consecutive years in the Secret Service, with 16 consecutive years of positive evaluations, but I cannot get promoted, ... The glass ceiling is firmly intact ... and they do not care to move it.

It was a glass ceiling issue. Many of them had been in that position sufficiently long enough that they felt someone should be breaking out of that group and moving up. It didn't appear to be happening.

It will be tapped right out of the (brewing) tanks and travel over the ceiling in tubes and right to the bar.

The ceiling will be maintained the same and we will offer the market what Opec can produce,

The ceiling was going to be about 20 feet tall, but I said no, it's got to be 50 feet tall. I think we got 48 feet or something.

The ceiling has not been changed for years. Having to do this -- and it had to be done -- the Housing Authority did it the most fairly it could.

The ceiling conforms to those elliptical guidelines. The ideal is no dead spots,

I'm not really into EDM music; I really like when someone plays their instrument and stuff. But I saw Deadmau5 at a festival, and it was pretty tight, I have to admit. He's got the giant mouse head on and tubes coming out of the ceiling and giant mirror glass things.

I'm not easily grossed out, but you can't help being turned off a little at the thought of being plastered to the ceiling by your boyfriend's man-juice.

I have no idea what the ceiling is with him. He's already a leader and one of the best I've seen. But he's also a great teammate. He's one of us. He doesn't think he's better than anyone. But he's also unbelievable.

I must express increasing concern over the continuing deterioration of the Schoharie Dam. Increasingly serious diagonal cracking in the valve chamber tower, and sagging of the concrete ceiling of the access gallery may indicate settling of that structure.