Layers Quotes

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.

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God."

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

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

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!

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential.

When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

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

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.

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility

The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.

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.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

Live in the layers, not on the litter.

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

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

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

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

Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

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

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals.

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

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

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.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn't with all the layers... I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says 'open here.' Is that sarcasm?

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

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

Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.