I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.
I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.
Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said. . . Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things. . . Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax. . . Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings. . . Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot. . . Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!
Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized.
The thing about that singles apartment is you never had to clean it up. . . until the day you got the security deposit back. You're arguing with the landlord. . . 'No sir, the back door was missing when we moved in here! The pizzas were always on the ceiling!'
Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?
We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.
Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.
The Devil. . . clutched hold of the miserable young man. . . and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.
I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.