Ceiling
of Ceil
The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.
The inner planking of a vessel.
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Ceiling Quotations
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
Nancy Pelosi
My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
Mark Messier
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M. C. Escher
I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
Billy Bob Thornton
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.
Sharon Gless
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.
Sharon Gless
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.
Kevin Spacey
We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
William Weld
You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.
Steve Wynn
Ceiling Translations
ceiling in Danish is loft
ceiling in Dutch is hoogtegrens, plafon, plafond
ceiling in Finnish is laipio
ceiling in French is plafond
ceiling in German is Decke(Zimmer), Obergrenze, Obergrenze
ceiling in Hungarian is plafon, mennyezet
ceiling in Italian is soffitto
ceiling in Portuguese is tecto, teto
ceiling in Spanish is techo
ceiling in Swedish is innertak
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