Ceiling Quotes

See also House Quotes, Things in a House Quotes, Core English Vocabulary (C) Quotes

(about how he got the role of Gigolo Joe) "Through one of those fantastical phone calls when your agent calls you and says `Stephen Spielberg is on the phone, he wants to speak to you about his next film.` And once you`ve peeled yourself of the ceiling you go, *clears throat* Yeah, great."

- Jude Law

"I`ve got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There`s just so much available space. I`ve got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day."

- Bryan Cranston

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

Like in the pilot, ... I see Jesse (Sam`s girlfriend) on the ceiling burning. Obviously she`s not on the ceiling burning, but still I had to lay down and look up, start yelling and screaming, and they set fire around me and had me run out of the room.

- Jared Padalecki

It`s much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you`re withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that`s much easier than it is to come in and say, `Hello.` Or, `I love you.` When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn`t as difficult.

- James Stewart

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

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

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

- Mark Messier

If you need a ceiling painted, a chariot race run, a city besieged, or the Red Sea parted, you think of me.

- Charlton Heston

Every time you state what you want or believe, you`re the first to hear it. It`s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don`t put a ceiling on yourself.

- Oprah Winfrey

We`ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

- Jesse Jackson

On "Star Trek" conventions: "I have the best time. My stand-up material is pretty well-set now. The traveling part gets me down, but the actual convention part I still love. I come home after a weekend at a convention, and you have to scrape me off the ceiling. I`m so up and high and full of self-confidence, and I thank the fans for making me feel that way. Sometimes I think I should be paying the fans money to let me be there. I bet they would like that, too. I probably get more out of it than they do." (1994)

- Marina Sirtis

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

- Sandy Duncan

I lived in a tepee in the living room, which already had a cathedral ceiling being English Tudor. I dreampt a lot. I drew. I was a bit of a child prodigy and would be taken to fairs, set up my easel and do 100 portraits. Later I took commissions from the Rye Art Store and made good money until I started to feel like a plastic surgeon with all the babes requests to remove age lines. I went to NYU and was supposed to be a scenic designer but I kept sneaking into acting classes. I was studying with the great Bill Hickey in my off time, playing a delivery boy on a soap opera and doing off-off Broadway. I had to make a choice. I chose acting.

- Bud Cort

If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would cover the roof repair but not individual unit repairs to things like the ceiling, walls, carpets or furniture,

- Mary Alice

Boys and girls like color, lots of different colors from floor to ceiling,

- Debbie Travis

It touched the ceiling, ... They don`t look as big on the farm.

- Jamie Anne Allman

There were a couple of drum licks and then a big blast, ... The sparks, they hit that ceiling and they scattered.

- Jim MacDonald

One of the biggest problems we have in cleaning our homes is getting to the high spots like ceiling fans, plant shelves, air-conditioning units and vents.

- Karen Wilson

He managed to cut his way through the ceiling of the building, and I`m not sure what he used, ... We consider him dangerous. He had been gone three hours before they found out. We are still investigating what happened.

- Frank Davis

Everyone keeps thinking there is a (price) ceiling...There is no ceiling,

- Matthew Simmons

It`s much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you`re withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that`s much easier than it is to come in and say, `Hello.` Or, `I love you`. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn`t as difficult.

- James Stewart

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I`ll have a long beard by the time I read them.

- Aaron Busack

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

- Abby Smith

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.

- Alan Graf Jr

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

- Alan Knipe

It is unfair to spend millions of dollars in tax breaks that benefit corporations importing Chinese ceiling fans as well as Starbucks.

- Andres Avila

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.

- Andrew Schroepfer

We were looking at the space when we were designing the whole suite of galleries, and we noticed that the ceiling was so tremendously high that we could easily make two floors of it. So what we did -- instead of the original idea of mixing decorative arts and paintings from the 12th century onward -- we have more or less separated the decorative arts from the paintings.

- Andrianne Hann

These devices suffer from a glass ceiling. A 2.5- to 3-inch LCD is too small to easily deliver a good user interface.

- Anthony Miranda

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won`t attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.

- Arhan Ayalon

I was up there for four years and had a good time, but I had hit a bit of a ceiling,

- Arnold Edinborough

I`ve had 16 consecutive years in the Secret Service, with 16 consecutive years of positive evaluations, but I cannot get promoted, ... The glass ceiling is firmly intact ... and they do not care to move it.

- Avril Smith

I saw a small flame coming out of a window, but within two minutes the whole ceiling was engulfed.

- Babette Galang

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.

- G.K. Chesterton

Are you really sure that a floor can`t also be a ceiling?

- M.C. Escher