Layers Quotes

When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.

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

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

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

The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

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.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do.

They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

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

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

And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

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

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.

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.

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

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

No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.

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.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my life - there was a lot going on, a lot of 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.

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product.

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

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

I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.

Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.

Im a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?

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

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!