Layers Quotes

The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

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

It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow.

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

All those layers of silence upon silence.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

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.

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.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

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

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.

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.

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

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.

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

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

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

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

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

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

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

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

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

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.

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

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

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

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

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

This show ["This Is Mike Stud"] will have a ton of layers that people who aren't necessarily my demographic will actually really appreciate...I'm really proud.

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.

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.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

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.

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it!