Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Bareilles

My earth is somebody's ceiling

Denis Waitley

One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

Edward Leamer

Currently we have construction job levels reaching toward the ceiling but manufacturing jobs are virtually at the floor. With hardly any room to fall further, it doesn't seem likely that problems in housing and in construction will spread to manufacturing this time.

Joe Yip

We will be getting a new roof, ceiling and floor. Everything damaged will be replaced.

Darren Harper

She had most of the original pressed metal ceiling tiles.

Patti Lovemark

She probably would have been predominantly in a separate classroom all day long with students that would not be able to perform academically in a regular classroom. She would have had a ceiling put on her potential.

Gavin Dickey

I felt I have a lot more potential in baseball. I've done everything I could possibly try to do to get better as a football player. I've invested hours and hours and hours, and I feel that I may have reached my peak with that sport. In baseball, I feel that the ceiling is higher and I have a lot more room to grow.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, that whimsical English professor, Dr. Parkinson, should formulate another Parkinson's law relating to the public debt since it so closely parallels his law on bureaucratic growth. Just as spending will always reach and overtake revenues so the public debt will constantly pierce the ceiling and finally go into orbit.

Ed Goren

Of course, there is a ceiling on how high the rating can go. I just can't see it from here.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Carl Zimmer

Really, all living humans are closely related to each other. If you take different people's DNA and compare it to each other, there are only tiny fractions of difference.

Scott Ishikawa

Our department's landscape expert is working closely with them.

Gloria Arroyo

Our economy continues to look up because this government is closely and consistently focused on it,

Richard Bernstein

People say these companies are closely held and that the executives are trying to diversify, but why now?

Greg Simon

People should be closely monitored, but not because these drugs are especially risky. The real problem in the treatment of depression is that people start medicine and the medicine has side effects or the medicine doesn't work right away, and they get discouraged and they drop out.

Don Johnson

of their high degree of interaction and the expanded distribution reach which enables to closely manage our distribution costs and increase our sales.

Adam Blankman

Despite the moderation in the overall index and in some of the more closely followed components, the overall tone of the report is that the manufacturing sector continues to grow at a solid rate.

Amanda Sturges

A nice option is to own a few closely connected condos where individual households can stay. Groups also usually need a gathering place of some sort, like a reception room or clubhouse that can be reserved for a function.

Sam Veda

A scholar's fingers, by being constantly engaged in activities,acquire immense capabilities.

Rosemary Mahoney

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Jason Silva

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

Mads Mikkelsen

A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

Romeo Miller

People see my body and ask me what I do to work out. I play a lot of basketball, so I'm constantly dribbling and running up the court. I take a basketball with me everywhere I go!

O. Singh

O Saints, meditate constantly on the Name of the Lord, and cross over the terrifying, poisonous world ocean.

Diana Don

Of course, we may look at rule breakers more frequently. If people are constantly late or going over the limit, we don't want to give them that much leverage to overextend themselves.

Bruce Anderson

Dell is constantly evaluating new technologies and at the present time, we don't have AMD processor-based systems in our portfolio,

Woody Allen

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Peter Morgan

The big question was when this writing off of debt was going to end. We seem to have reached that level.

Zeng Jun

As long as you have a debt from the bank, you are working for them, not for yourself.

Jan Balkenende

Our debt of gratitude is too great to express in words. They gave us the most precious gift -- freedom, ... Today, I salute them.

Jon Runyan

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

Lisa Ward

The money is a factor, and it's become more so because students are accruing more debt.

Phyllis Reed

The monetization of debt will reverse yen strength and release money to leave Japan, which has always been the big problem.

Zeng Jun

Debt is like a double edged sword. Use it well and you shall win the war. Use it wrongly and you shall see your name in the tombstone...

Tom Daschle

a revisit back to the early 1980s -- $3 trillion of debt later.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

Really, and this can be said now, Kenneth Gluck was threatened with the sad fate of the beheaded English hostages,

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

John Terry

After I finish playing, maybe I will sit down and watch it properly, but I don't think I will be able to until I retire or until I win it.

Ronald Reagan

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Lewis Carroll

Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and remember who you are!

Paul Parker

Some will say that tele has lost its soul with the new gear. My feeling is that if people don't want to use the big stuff, they don't have to.

Frank Clarke

It would be better for our association and the English game as a whole if we had an English manager,

Art Hogan

I think the dollar's recovery has a huge impact on the market, when you look at things like gold, which is getting tattooed today, ... I also think it's important psychologically, like when oil finally peaked in the mid-50's.

Jeff Gordon

He wasn't real happy with me, but we finally worked it out.

Albert Camus

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Maria Corbalan

I'm happy. I'm very happy that it's finally going to be done.

Greg Olsen

I had a minor medical problem and they said I couldn't go. It took me a year to get well and then I finally went into space. That should just let you all know that you should never give up.

Frank Thomas

I'll finally get some real work in. It will be great to see live pitching for a change.

Craig Biggio

I know he's smiling right now, ... He's overjoyed. We were so happy for him when he finally won the Stanley Cup. We couldn't wait to get through on the phone to him and congratulate him.

Sy Montgomery

I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

Aaron Brooks

I hope not. We're going to come back strong. We have to look forward to the next game. ... Hopefully we'll finally be settled into our routine there in San Antonio. That will help out a lot.

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Brad Smith

We want to formulate a new framework and new principles. Principles need to emerge.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Dick DeGuerin

He looks at the law and he sees what he wants to see, and he prosecutes what he thinks ought to be prosecuted, rather than what it is.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Trevor Phillips

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

Sara Sheridan

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Sarah Orne Jewett

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

Werner Herzog

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

Werner Herzog

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

Wallace Stegner

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Victor Mendez

It's not just the workers. It's the traveling public we're also worried about.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

Steve Collins

It's been a while since we've really been tested.

LaDainian Tomlinson

It's been a while since it's been like that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'