Quotes by category:Ceilings

And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

Pete Seeger

ceilings feet people

It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incentive among many, and has its place. But to put no limits on the impulse to accumulate money obsessively is as destructive as to place no limits on the impulse to commit violence. A viable democratic society needs a ceiling and a floor with regard to the distribution of wealth and assets.

Philip Slater

ceilings mistake trying

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

Quentin Tarantino

ceilings design risk

Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

ceilings girlfriend mirrors

I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall.

Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

ceilings wall glasses

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

Rick Riordan

tyson ponies ceilings

Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.

Rita Zahara

turns ceilings sky

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.

Roald Dahl

juice ceilings wall

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

Robin Morgan

graduates ceilings mean

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Rohinton Mistry

spit ceilings

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.

Ronald Reagan

ceilings two people

There are so many people who don't want her to succeed, and they've been doing everything to deny her what is literally her entitlement. And she has still triumphed over it all, the biggest crack in the glass ceiling ever, and it's Mrs. Hillary Clinton.

Rush Limbaugh

ceilings glasses people

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

Sara Bareilles

ceilings earth feelings

My earth is somebody's ceiling

Sara Bareilles

ceilings earth

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.

Sarah MacLean

ceilings divine lord

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

Sean Hannity

debt ceilings vote

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

Shonda Rhimes

ceilings running inspirational

I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.

Stephen Curry

get-better ceilings basketball

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

Stephen Chbosky

ceilings bed nice

Never have a ceiling on your income.

T. Harv Eker

income ceilings inspiring