Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Payne

I saw a small flame coming out of a window, but within two minutes the whole ceiling was engulfed.

Troy Bell

It feels like a mainline jet. The inside height from floor to ceiling is over 6-and-a-half feet, so a tall person doesn't have to scrunch down.

Ken Knutson

He's on a roll. It's fun. Everything he's throwing is super, it's electric. It's come together this year. His ceiling is so high, but he's pitching to it.

Sara Bareilles

My earth is somebody's ceiling

Denis Waitley

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

Sharon Gless

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

John Dingell

This startling new data shows that in seven of the ten industries studied, the wage gap between male and female managers widened between 1995 and 2000, ... It's compelling evidence that the glass ceiling remains a powerful obstacle to women in the workforce, and it suggests things may be getting worse, not better.

Tim Huelskamp

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.

Warren Farrell

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

Mike MacDonald

Marist is playing for a championship right now. We're playing for our lives to get as far away from the cellar as we can, so we know what we're in for.

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Bob Dylan

The one who is not being born is dying.

Edgar Allan Poe

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Max Frisch

Ever since the young men have owned motorcycles, incest has been dying out.

Nicollette Sheridan

Eva was very jealous because she's dying to come and I actually think she's going to be here at the end of the (next) month.

Siobhan Rigby

Even though we are under a tragedy and don't exactly have much money at all, what we do have is each other. We have our family. We have food, water, shelter. People in New Orleans, they were dying because they didn't have any of those.

Tom Skinner

There's no evidence it's efficiently transmitted from person to person, nor is it being sustained in the human population when it comes to person to person transmission. An overwhelming majority have gotten this from handling sick or dying birds.

Donald Trump

America is dying at 1 percent GDP.

Helen Marshall

I went to the site, ... This is the Fountains of the something or other. It is really now just a big, big pool of stagnant water, with garbage thrown in.

Connie Johnson

You can't get shrimp with so much garbage out there. You'd tear your nets up.

Jodi Picoult

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Paul Horowitz

This is the world's largest garbage can, that's for sure.

Joe Borowski

What a garbage way to lose the game.

Mike Greene

I wanted to jump over the glass but I couldn't so I just stayed composed. It was a good feeling.

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Aimee Mullins

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

Janet Frame

[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

Damon Lindelof

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Boris Yeltsin

The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.

Anthony de Mello

My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Simon Pegg

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Publius Tacitus

There will be vice as long as there are men

Ray Walston

I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it.

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Cate Blanchett

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

Michael Ignatieff

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Sergei Gonchar

Special teams were the key. We scored on the power play and Washington didn't. That was the difference.

Heinrich Himmler

Once we have the power we will never give it up!

John Benson

so power is one thing that's stable at this stage - we're not contemplating any change.

Emily Besler

Ten votes. That says it all. Each person matters. Don't underestimate the power of your voice. Students can do a lot on this campus.

Dan Webster

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

Martin Buber

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Al Pacino

Scarface - first you get the money, then you power and then you get the women

Charles Clark

Proscription is an important power and not one to be used lightly,

James Haynes

Quarterback is a lot of footwork. It's mechanics, how you step back, what you do on a trap or power or play action,

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.