Ceilings Quotations

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.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

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.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

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.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.

I don't think anybody has a ceiling. Everybody can constantly improve.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

I am a ceiling fan, especially during rain.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.

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.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

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

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.

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.

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.

I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson

Never have a ceiling on your income.

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.

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

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.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.

My earth is somebody's ceiling

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

Started underneath the floor, Now my money through the ceiling.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.

One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

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

Don't put a ceiling on yourself.