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  • Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.

  • If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

    Ceilings   Saving   Debt  
  • I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She's a sweet daddy's girl. She's premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.

    Girl   Mom   Daughter  
  • Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky.

    Dream   Past   Doors  
  • 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.

  • A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part.

    Wall   Play   Guy  
    "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.
  • Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

    "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.
  • My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

    Dark   Leaving   Church  
    Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.2, Vintage
  • It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • 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.

  • Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

    Art   Reality   Ceilings  
    "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.
  • I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

    Wall   Sky   Sick  
    Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College
  • 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.

  • As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.

    Fall   Men   Fire  
  • As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.

    Wall   Sky   Mountain  
    John Muir (1973). “The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir”
  • You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

  • It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.

    Funny   Rocks   Sailing  
    Pamela Anderson (2008). “Star Struck”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.

    Sky   Ceilings   Turns  
  • Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

    Passion   Heart   Eye  
  • Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

    Taken   Eye   Feet  
    Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”
  • I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling.

    Funny   Humor   Hair  
    "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.
  • 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.

    Dream   Night   Ceilings  
    Song: Fit In, 1984
  • 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.

  • The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

    Sky   Church   Ceilings  
    Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.185, New World Library
  • ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

    Spiritual   Wall   Lying  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.
  • We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

    Law   Ceilings   Needs  
    "Fiscal cliff: hopes rise for deal as Jim DeMint quits Senate" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
  • 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.

    "Smash the Ceiling". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2011.
  • That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

    "Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner uses Brit Awards speech to say ‘Rock’n’roll will never die’ – watch". www.nme.com. February 19, 2014.
  • I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

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

    Acting   Ceilings   Seems  
    Source: underthegunreview.net
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