Layers quotes

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
-- Alberto Moravia

#Writing #Layers #Century

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.
-- Ali Vincent

#Layers #Hiding #Easier

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
-- Alice Sebold

#Ignorant #Layers #Time And Change

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
-- Arthur Golden

#Onions #Layers #Cry

Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Body #Asana #Layers

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Would Be #Actors #Layers

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.
-- Bernhard Schlink

#Events #Alive #Layers

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
-- Bill Gates

#Minorities #Legs #Layers

Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
-- Bill Mollison

#Layers #Fuzzy #Boundaries

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
-- Blythe Danner

#Crazy #Thinking #Layers

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
-- Bob Dylan

#Skins #Layers #Steps

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.
-- Bobbi Brown

#Foundation #Layers #Complexion

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.
-- Bootsy Collins

#Layers #Higher

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
-- Bridget Fonda

#People #Interesting #Layers

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
-- Candace Bushnell

#Past #Layers #Glamour

Everyone has different layers to who they are.
-- Carmen Electra

#Different #Layers

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Layers #Process

Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.
-- Charles Correa

#Lying #Texture #Layers

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
-- Chinua Achebe

#Imagination #Tissues #Layers

Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning
-- Chris Murray

#Would Be #Layers #Ingredients

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.
-- Craig Thompson

#Soul #Twenties #Layers

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.
-- Cristin Milioti

#Light #Layers #Stuff

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.
-- Darynda Jones

#Cake #Desire #Layers

As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by layers of concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.
-- David Deida

#Circles #Layers #Purpose

Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.
-- David Thorne

#Opportunity #Layers #Nipples

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.
-- Dean Stockwell

#Ozone #Goes On #Layers

One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Silence #Attention #Layers

They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.
-- Denis Johnson

#Beautiful #Secret #Layers

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
-- Derrick Jensen

#Lying #Onions #Layers

THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.
-- Dick Francis

#Children #People #Layers

Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.
-- Donna Karan

#Body #Layers #Firsts

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Perception #Layers #Gaps

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Reality #Depth #Layers

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
-- Edward Norton

#Character #Layers #Deeper

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics
-- Elie Saab

#Fabric #Layers #Voluptuous

The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Cutting #Layers #Matter

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Alternatives #Layers #Language

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Orchestra #Layers #Clarity

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
-- Frances Mayes

#Layers

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.
-- Gao Xingjian

#Simple #Layers #Facts

The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.
-- Gerhard Richter

#Art #Different #Layers

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
-- Gillian Flynn

#Layers #Protection #Liquor

The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.
-- Glenn Greenwald

#Wings #Machines #Layers

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.
-- Grant Bowler

#Drama #Layers #Way

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
-- Harlan Ellison

#Hate #Layers #Miles

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
-- Harrison Birtwistle

#Ideas #Layers #Things Change

It's cold out. It's even cold in Florida. So cold today that Katherine Harris put on a third layer of makeup.
-- Jay Leno

#Makeup #Florida #Layers

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.
-- Jean-Louis Barrault

#Patience #Treasure #Layers

Oh, baby. You have no idea what I’d do to get through those layers and down to the good stuff.
-- Jennifer Estep

#Baby #Ideas #Layers

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.
-- Jennifer Pahlka

#Ocean #Government #Layers

Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.
-- John L. Parker Jr.

#Running #Desire #Layers

I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock.
-- Josh Hutcherson

#Rocks #Flannels #Layers

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Acting #Onions #Layers

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
-- Karen Joy Fowler

#Believe #Layers #My Family

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.
-- Katherine Dunn

#Color #Texture #Layers

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
-- Kay WalkingStick

#Art #Lines #Layers

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
-- Ken Burns

#The End Of The Day #Pearls #Layers

She turned to him, her cheeks burning red. “What is this? Vampire porn?” “Yep.” “Oh, and this is a good one. Muffy the Vampire Layer.
-- Larissa Ione

#Vampire #Burning #Layers

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.
-- Lee Yoon-ki

#Emotional #People #Layers

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.
-- Marilyn Ferguson

#Feelings #Layers #Belief

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.
-- Matthew Lillard

#Drama #Character #Layers

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
-- Maurice Sendak

#Children #Thinking #Layers

It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.
-- Megan Hart

#Struggle #World #Layers

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
-- Michael Chiklis

#Bricks #Actors #Layers

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.
-- Michael Ende

#Dream #Earth #Layers

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.
-- Michael K. Powell

#Communication #Technology #Layers

The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes.
-- Mooji

#Games #Layers #Consciousness

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.
-- Myles Munroe

#Men #Onions #Layers

Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
-- Natalie Goldberg

#Passion #Layers #Way

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.
-- Nick Offerman

#Taken #Years #Layers

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Numbers #Layers #Literature

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
-- Pam Houston

#People #Trying #Layers

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.
-- Paul Weller

#Layers #Just Being

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.
-- Peter Wolf

#Down And #Layers #Way

I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on.
-- Poppy Delevingne

#Goes On #Layers #Vests

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.
-- Richard Eder

#Onions #Layers

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.
-- Richard Leakey

#Water #Needs #Layers

Layer by layer art strips life bare.
-- Robert Musil

#Art #Layers

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.
-- Rudrangshu Mukherjee

#Book #Rothschild #Layers

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
-- Rufus Sewell

#Disappointment #Layers #Depth

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.
-- Sally Mann

#Thinking #Trying #Layers

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.
-- Sarah Hall

#Children #Law #Layers

Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.
-- Sarah Palin

#Looks #Layers #Waste

Live in the layers, not on the litter.
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Layers

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
-- Steven Erikson

#Years #Stones #Layers

If you want a higher power, go to the ***** sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
-- Susan Powter

#Ozone #Want #Layers

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Makeup #Layers #Faces

Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
-- Sven Birkerts

#Ozone #Soul #Layers

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.
-- Teri Hatcher

#Layers #Vulnerability

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
-- Thylias Moss

#Race #African American #Layers

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
-- Thylias Moss

#Race #Layers #Culmination

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
-- Tim Cahill

#Ponies #Layers #Firsts

I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.
-- Ursula Hegi

#Sleep #Waiting #Layers

In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
-- Veronica Roth

#Past #Want #Layers

Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
-- W. G. Sebald

#Past #Layers #Emotion

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
-- Warren G. Bennis

#Government #Onions #Layers

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
-- Wendell Berry

#Littles #Layers #Sitting

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.
-- William Gibson

#Powerful #Thinking #Layers

A grownup is a child with layers on.
-- Woody Harrelson

#Children #Growing Up #Layers

Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.
-- Yuja Wang

#Night #Trying #Layers