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Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened. — Maria V. Snyder

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

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

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

Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. — G.K. Chesterton

Ken steepled his fingers and gazed thoughtfully up at the ceiling. 'Dwarves have done very well for us in primetime. — Melissa Jo Peltier

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling. — Anatoly Berezovoy

It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised. — Edith Wharton

We must raise both the ceiling and the floor. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

I sputtered for a minute. Then I consulted the ceiling. It was silent on the matter and, strangely, didn't seem to share my outrage. — Penny Reid

For when you look at the ceiling, or down at the floor, when the trouble's before you, you're begging for more. — Brian M. Boyce

The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax." ... "Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there. — Barbara Elsborg

Their laughter rose to the ceiling and shook hands there. — John Crowley

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

She whipped her tentacles away from his fingers decapitating the dead lobster-dog and its body fell from the ceiling fan. — Athena Villaverde

I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men. — Jane Harman

After I finished, I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet. — Stephen Chbosky

The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own. — Melanie Tem

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling. — Jean Genet

Overpopulation has a ceiling: earth's total surface area divided by the dimensions of one economy seat. One more baby is born and hello cannibalism. — Walter Kirn

Mom, do you have pot hanging from the ceiling? — Tara Sivec

Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling. — Munia Khan

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling. — Groucho Marx

Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas. — Tom Hodgkinson

He ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.) — Sheridan Hay

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

Hesitated. She looked at the ceiling. Took in a breath. Met his gaze again. "It's me, Kai. I'm Princess Selene. — Marissa Meyer

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. — Laura Kightlinger

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

Each night I lie awake and stare up at the stars and think, what the hell happened to my ceiling. — Robert Paul

I have pointed rhythmically at the ceiling to the two-four beat of the same disco music I hated pointing at the ceiling to in 1977. — David Foster Wallace

Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders. — Anthony Doerr

The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling. — Craig Brown

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

Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that. — Diana Gabaldon

Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars ... — Colton Dixon

Even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery. — Joseph O'Neill

Sometimes we need a wise guide to peel back the ceiling of our lives to remind us that infinity never places any limits on our skies. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

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

He shook his head and said, "No, He just went up," pointing his index finger to the ceiling of the room. — Neal Pylant

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days. — Holly Robinson

Al brought his attention back down from the ceiling. "You really don't want to have sex with him? Why? What's wrong with him? — Kim Harrison

Davey saw Violet climbing down to make the tea, and decided that he'd better get Grandpa off the ceiling. After all, they had company. — J.M. Kessler

When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling. — Kara DioGuardi

And I blink at the ceiling, seeing stars. "Holy fuck."
Her back shudders with a giggle. "It was kind of a religious experience, wasn't it? — Emma Chase

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling. — Anne Sexton

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. — Calvin Trillin

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills. — Terri Sewell

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. ( ... ) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear. — Alex Garland

First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.' — Bill Maher

The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.
The suspended body; a harbinger of good news.
Love was lost.
Love was found. — Chirag Tulsiani

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between. — Kristin Hannah

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on. — Leila Sales

A vast skylight is cut into the ceiling, so she can fall asleep studying the stars. She doesn't know their real names, preferring mysteries to facts, — Menna Van Praag

Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big! — Israelmore Ayivor

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change ... — Elizabeth Dole

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

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

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

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die. — Frankie Boyle

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house — Heidi Roizen

And another hour to scrape seven of them off the stove, floor, and ceiling. . . . — Rachel Renee Russell

Dust coated the long-dark light fixtures on the ceiling, at least half of them busted, jagged glass screwed into rusty holes. — James Dashner

The fault is not in our stars," I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice. — Susan Dennard

I looked to the ceiling and told God, God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission. — Kristen Ashley

The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes. — Pawan Mishra

Started underneath the floor,
Now my money through the ceiling. — Wiz Khalifa

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book. — Machado De Assis

The ceiling was a mural showing some ancient hero making a deal with a two-faced celestial being. — Brian McClellan

She has drudge written all over her. She probably stares at the ceiling, things about mopping the floor. — Margaret Atwood

The Keisha I knew stayed fucking to Piles feet to the ceiling. — Jessica Wren

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling. — Bill Johnson

Scapegrace went to roll his eyes, but lost his enthusiasm halfway through and ended up looking at the ceiling. — Derek Landy

And then he glanced at the ceiling and, making a fist with his right hand, he gasped, Damn you ... God! Damn you! — Anne Rice

Christ," he mutters to the ceiling. "She crosses her fingers behind her back and offers to pinky swear, like a kindergartener. Chase is fucked. — Julie Johnson

The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard. — Joe Dunthorne

The only ceiling that's over my head is the one I put there. — K.A. Stevens

She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings. — Dennis Vickers

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

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

I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall. — Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

And I'm left alone with my "strength," staring at the ceiling. — Paulo Coelho

Breakthrough the glass ceiling of limitation that has been placed over your life, be the star of your own team and Champion yourself to victory! — Dwaun S. Cox

A nightmare, a memory. A thing can be both.
I stare up at the ceiling. White, white, white. The emptiness of it aches. — Emery Lord

Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling. — Michelle Hodkin

Clouds hid the peaks and only their flanks were visible beneath a murky ceiling. — Joe Simpson

Crazy? try ceiling-licking, rabies-frothing, dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon-in-fucking-sane.
Thanatos — Larissa Ione

Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at — Stephenie Meyer

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

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling — Bill Belichick

the ceiling was too high to make out, — J.K. Rowling

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

The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling. — Wayne Teasdale

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

Ginger beer these days is mostly the sort of chemical-infused broth that pins children to the ceiling. — Fennel Hudson

A pleasure to meet you at last," he said. "I look forward to you making the acquaintance of my ceiling. — Tiffany Reisz