“why does accountability keep hitting a glass ceiling?”
Rachel Maddow (1973) American journalist
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (May 5, 2009)
Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006.
In reference to moving up the World Wrestling Entertainment roster, despite a lack of a conventional wrestling physique.
Ghost Hunters
“why does accountability keep hitting a glass ceiling?”
Rachel Maddow (1973) American journalist
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (May 5, 2009)
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Concession speech http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=572270, Washington D.C., June 7, 2008. <br class="br">Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
Isaac Herzog (1960) Israeli politician
Source: Isaac Herzog (2021) cited in " Israeli president’s pick for military secretary makes history https://www.jns.org/israeli-presidents-pick-for-military-secretary-makes-history/" on Jewish News Syndicate, 21 December 2021.
“Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”
Bill Shankly (1913–1981) Scottish footballer and manager
Attributed to Shankly in 2013, thirty years after Shankly's death. However, very similar sayings are found anonymously from the late twentieth-century. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: http://www.empireofthekop.com/2013/07/26/liverpool-should-aim-for-epl-title-and-possibly-finish-in-the-top-four-by-liverpool_red1/ <br class="br">Source: Harrington and Kavanagh, Prayer for Parish Groups: Preparing and Leading Prayer for Group Meetings https://books.google.com/books?id=tnpYzxOSsDoC&pg=PT120&dq=%22Aim+for+the+sky%22+ceiling&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAGoVChMIoszvpuGkyAIVyD6ICh0pVwwm#v=onepage&q=%22Aim%20for%20the%20sky%22%20ceiling&f=false, p. 32, 1998
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)
“A sledgehammer breaks glass but forges steel.”
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
"We do not change our course" (1938)
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
"Each Day I Live in a Glass Room," A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)