Quotes and Sayings About Layers

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