Ceilings quotes
127 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project."
"Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats."
"One person's ceiling is another person's floor."
"There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity."
"Every ceiling reached becomes a floor."
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"One man's ceiling is another man's floor."
"raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?"
"When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything."
"I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that."
"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."
"Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling."
"He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions."
"Don't put a ceiling on yourself."
"It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse."
"I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing."
"The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work."
"Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!"
"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 am a ceiling fan, especially during rain."
"When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?"
"There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation."
"We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined."
"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 (...)"
"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."
