Alice Walker

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul.

American Author

Alexandra Fuller

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!

English Author

Andy Jassy

I think it's scary for consumer confidence and for confidence in U.S. businesses and potential credit ratings if we don't make sure that we raise that debt ceiling.

American Businessman

Toks Olagundoye

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

Nigerian Actress

Kari Skogland

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.

Sandy Duncan

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!

American Musician

Kevin Spacey

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

American Actor

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

American Politician

Jimmy Graham

In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

American Athlete

Ted Yoho

Remember, 'ceiling' refers to the interior upper surface of a room, not any upper surface outside.

Interior Surface

'Ceiling' is the underpart of a roof and is found indoors, but it's not the same as 'roof', which is external.

Not the Roof

Ceilings can have decorative elements, like moldings or painted designs, which add to a room's character.

Decorative Aspect

In aviation, 'ceiling' refers to how high an aircraft can safely fly, important for flight plans.

Aviation Specific

The 'ceiling' in aviation can change due to weather conditions, which pilots must consider.

Weather Influence

In metaphorical use, 'ceiling' signifies an upper limit one can reach or impose, often financial or performance-related.

Metaphoric Use

'Ceiling' can refer to invisible barriers, such as societal limits on groups of people, dubbed 'glass ceilings'.

Implicit Restrictions

 The spatulae flatten, creating lots of surface area for their positively and negatively charged patches to find complimentary patches on the ceiling. Each spatula only contributes a minuscule amount of that van der Waals stickiness. But a gecko has about two billion of them, creating enough combined force to support its weight.

How do geckos defy...

 on the surface of the glacier and die, they get buried in the snow and gradually become part of the glacier, sinking deeper and deeper into the ice. As these caves form and melt their way up into the ice, they make these artifacts rain down from the ceiling and fall into the cave floor where we end up finding them.

My glacier cave...

 and I remember thinking, I landed so light-footed, thinking, if my knee gives, they'll just have more work to do in the morning. And so, when it was the crazy thing. I don't know how many of you guys have had surgery, but -- you are so helpless, right? You're on this gurney and you're watching the ceiling go by,

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 creating the sense of a three-dimensional picture that we can walk into. The line between the ceiling and the wall converges to the open door, further creating the perception of the painting as a physical space seen from the viewer's perspective. In this sense, the audience and the real world are the focus,

Why is this painting so...

 The four minarets built over the next century are the most obvious sign of this era, serving as architectural supports in addition to their religious purpose. But there are many others. Ornate candle holders relate Suleiman's conquest of Hungary, while giant caligraphy discs hung from the ceiling

It's a church. It's a...

 going to break through and all of a sudden that ceiling of ice that we've been working underneath would be gone so we felt that there was probably uh quite a limited amount of time that we might be able to film this so the clock was ticking winter is reaching down from the cold world above

Filming Antarctica's...

 To spatially denote the pedestrian realm, to protect the pedestrians from the vehicles in the carriageway, to filter the sunlight onto the sidewalk, and to soften the hardscape of the buildings and to create a ceiling -- a vaulted ceiling -- over the street, at its best.

James Kunstler: How bad...

 They wear bright colors, rose and blue, like Eastern dress." Sometimes, she said, before the people come on, she may hallucinate pink and blue squares on the floor, which seem to go up to the ceiling.

What hallucination...

 life I saw how art can heal but my aunt also told me that it can inspire and transform during the many nights in her room stacked ceiling high with art books we would sit beside her tiny coffee

Fighting injustice with...

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