Ceilings Quotes - Page 5

The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized.

I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

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.

There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting.

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.

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

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

Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break.

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.

I am a ceiling fan, especially during rain.

Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.

PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.

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.

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

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

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?

The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

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

You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.