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How did you-"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
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
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
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
Mom, do you have pot hanging from the ceiling?
— Tara Sivec
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Scapegrace went to roll his eyes, but lost his enthusiasm halfway through and ended up looking at the ceiling.
— Derek Landy
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
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
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
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
