Welcome to our collection of captivating ceiling quotes! Ceilings are more than just the tops of our rooms; they symbolize aspirations, limits, and the expanse of our imagination. From grand cathedrals adorned with intricate frescoes to the humble abode sheltering cherished moments under its canopy, ceilings encapsulate the essence of shelter and aspiration.
Throughout history, ceilings have inspired poets, artists, architects, and dreamers alike, serving as both a literal and metaphorical canvas for expression. They evoke a sense of wonder, prompting us to gaze upwards and contemplate the vastness of space above. Whether it’s the starry heavens depicted in classical art or the modern marvels of skyscraper rooftops, ceilings remind us of the boundless potential that lies beyond our immediate reach. As we explore the diverse perspectives on ceilings through the lens of quotes, we invite you to ponder the profound significance they hold in our lives. Discover insights, reflections, and musings from various minds throughout time on this intriguing subject. So, without further ado, let’s delve into the world of ceiling quotes and uncover the wisdom
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. Jesse Jackson
I’ve got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can’t even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like ‘Man’s Fate.’ Michael Cimino
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me. James Green Somerville
My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with. Mark Messier
Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. Charles Bass
Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor. John Ortberg
For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, ‘Women’s rights are human rights,’ and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the ’18 million cracks’ in the glass ceiling. Rebecca Traister
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. Warren Farrell
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. Josh Duhamel
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. Chuck Tanner
If your ceiling is falling down, don’t you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself. Carmen Dell’Orefice
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There’s a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it’s authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn’t authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. Peter Welch
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. Nate Berkus
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. Bayard Taylor
If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I’d rather achieve the savings. Bob Corker
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. Kenneth Chenault
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. Andrew Cuomo
Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling. Greta Thunburg
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. Paula Yates
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. Marian Wright Edelman
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. Sharon Gless
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert. Eugene Ionesco
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. Mick Mulvaney
I think there’s still this huge glass ceiling for women owning sexuality. And especially young women. If you’re an old lady like me, I can do anything now. Marilyn Minter
I’ve never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What’s wrong with that? Billy Bob Thornton
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
Here’s the perversity of Wall Street’s psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn’t reached. Andrew Ross Sorkin
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. Tina Brown
The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: ‘the full faith and credit’ of the U.S. government. Deborah Tannen
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. Mike Lee
I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically. John Carroll Lynch
The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling. Venus Williams
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? Humphrey Carpenter
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. Juice Newton
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. Tim Huelskamp
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. Eddie Huang
If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world. Don Dokken
At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, ‘Don’t feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.’ Harmon Killebrew
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling. Wavy Gravy
The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is an astonishing building, designed by Christopher Wren. Its painted ceiling has just been restored so that the darkish miasma that was Robert Streeter’s original allegory of truth and light striking the university is now bright with playful cherubs and lustrous clouds. Justin Cartwright
For the first time in evolution as a species, we’re hitting an energy ceiling. Matt Bellamy
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I’d gone to school with was sick – one of the first people I knew who’d gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called ‘Angels in America.’ I’ve never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it. Tony Kushner
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. Eliot Spitzer
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. William Weld
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. Peter Welch
Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? Wislawa Szymborska
In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he’d built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted. Rabih Alameddine
I just don’t think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it’s dark, accentuate the darkness. David Bromstad
I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I’m lost or I can’t find a parking space. Laura Kightlinger
I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills. Terri Sewell
I have my great grandmother’s recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I’m actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling – which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean. Danny Pino
We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It’s anachronistic and it’s a problem. Mark Zandi
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.’ Gilbert Gottfried
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits – a floor, not a ceiling. It’s enforceable. Dan Savage
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. Toks Olagundoye
A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn’t do it. Ted Cruz
The truth is that the United States doesn’t need, and shouldn’t have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. James Surowiecki
I wouldn’t be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn’t have the confidence that I have if I wasn’t born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me. Michael Lee-Chin
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn’t learned to be civil – note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. Grover Norquist
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden’s head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader’s face. Peter Bergen
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. Charles Simeon
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. Brittany Howard
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. Martin Filler
I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn’t need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are. Alan Greenspan
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. Jay Carney
The NBA playoffs have the highest ceiling in all of sports. Rowan Ricardo Phillips
When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I don’t do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling. Kathryn Bigelow
What people need to realize is that when I was elected and put in this role, I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn’t realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as a leader. Annamie Paul
It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets. Anouska Hempel
I didn’t ever realize that my ceiling would be this high, that I would be able to play at the major-league level. But here I am. I’ve been doing it for a while now, so it’s certainly a blast. It’s something that I want to cherish and make the most of. Ben Zobrist
I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! Humphrey Lyttelton
I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album ‘Like Water for Chocolate.’ Creatively, I felt like I’d hit a ceiling, and I needed something else to express myself, and I just decided to take acting classes. Common
As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul. Alice Walker
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor. Bill Shankly
When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling. Adam West
An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress. Jerome Powell
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. Katherine Jenkins
My daughter loves to cook. At first, I found myself making her be really neat and precise. Then I realized it’s OK if things get all over the floor and counters and ceiling. We’re making memories. Kimberly Schlapman
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. Bill Johnson
There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling. Bill Johnson
I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you’re playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you’re lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it’s like, ‘I want to be home. I’m a dad. I’ve got kids.’ Flea
They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling. Heather O’Rourke
You’ll never even catch me doing that ‘soft atheist’ thing of very softly singing along or just mouthing the words, looking down at a hymn sheet every few seconds to check the words. To state the obvious, as an atheist, the hymn sheet is no use to me. So I just stand there, looking straight ahead or up at the ceiling, and do nothing. John Niven
I think, before Obama, there was a glass ceiling. That’s a big change. As a president, I think he was the best. I felt like I could trust his judgment, and he’d take a measured, empathetic approach. I don’t see there ever being another Barack Obama. Jordan Peele
The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling. Hilda Solis
I feel it’s a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling… to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift. Kevin Spacey
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it’s time to move on. Nancy Pelosi
If we reach the debt ceiling, we don’t have to default. Getting to that point just won’t allow us to reach new debt. Ron DeSantis
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. Steve Wynn
The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don’t think there’s anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country. Bob Corker
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. Mike Lee
When I look at myself, I’d like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling. Kara DioGuardi
You do Batman right, and he’s going to be popular. He’s a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing ‘Batman’ was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, ‘No, it’s like holding a big-ass diamond that you can’t break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can’t break Batman.’ Frank Miller
I’m from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn’t wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement. Denise Morrison
After a string of miscarriages, I gave birth to my first child. I spent six months of my pregnancy stuck in bed, staring at the ceiling. So my kids mean a lot to me. Mumtaz
I think it’s important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It’s Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don’t have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it. Michele Bachmann
I think we’ve broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our glass ceiling that was there for women. There are so many great fighters, and we’ve proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times, our fights are the best fights on the card. Miesha Tate
