Quotes about Layers

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece. Votes: 6

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. Votes: 5

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. Votes: 4

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight. Votes: 3

A grownup is a child with layers on. Votes: 2

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. Votes: 2

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Votes: 2

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. Votes: 2

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process. Votes: 2

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. Votes: 2

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. Votes: 2

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Votes: 2

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. Votes: 2

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Votes: 2

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. Votes: 2

The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

How cool it is to see a bride walking down the aisle with a beautiful long gown with beautiful layers of tulle and organza, unveiling their mini dress at the party? Votes: 2

As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered. Votes: 2

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think. Votes: 2

Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length. Votes: 2

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling. Votes: 2

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian. Votes: 2

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones. Votes: 2

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area. Votes: 2

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. Votes: 2

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it. Votes: 2

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places. Votes: 2

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off. Votes: 2

Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in between layers of sauce and breadcrumbs. They can vary from everyone's favorite all-time casserole, macaroni and cheese, to the ultimate English casserole, Shepherd's Pie. Votes: 2

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about. Votes: 2

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. Votes: 2

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. Votes: 2

The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. Votes: 2

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. Votes: 2

I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe. Votes: 2

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Votes: 2

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of. Votes: 1

All those layers of silence upon silence. Votes: 0

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics Votes: 0

Live in the layers, not on the litter. Votes: 0

Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find. Votes: 0

Everyone has different layers to who they are. Votes: 0

I think I have a lot of crazy layers. Votes: 0

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same. Votes: 0

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world. Votes: 0

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers. Votes: 0

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. Votes: 0

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music. Votes: 0

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin. Votes: 0

I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock. Votes: 0

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability. Votes: 0

I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do. Votes: 0

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers. Votes: 0

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers. Votes: 0

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18. Votes: 0

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers. Votes: 0

I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums. Votes: 0

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives. Votes: 0

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center. Votes: 0

Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night. Votes: 0

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. Votes: 0

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath. Votes: 0

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. Votes: 0

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew. Votes: 0

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives. Votes: 0

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. Votes: 0

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. Votes: 0

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers. Votes: 0

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers. Votes: 0

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you. Votes: 0

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. Votes: 0

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer. Votes: 0

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat. Votes: 0

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. Votes: 0

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. Votes: 0

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. Votes: 0

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated. Votes: 0

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression. Votes: 0

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. Votes: 0

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. Votes: 0

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. Votes: 0

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. Votes: 0

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche. Votes: 0

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core. Votes: 0

Oh, baby. You have no idea what I'd do to get through those layers and down to the good stuff. Votes: 0

Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing. Votes: 0

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core. Votes: 0

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. Votes: 0

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season. Votes: 0

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs? Votes: 0

Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential. Votes: 0

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. Votes: 0

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing. Votes: 0

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. Votes: 0

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it. Votes: 0

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. Votes: 0

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it. Votes: 0

It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained. Votes: 0

I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring. Votes: 0

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Votes: 0

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of. Votes: 0

Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals. Votes: 0

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. Votes: 0

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. Votes: 0

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. Votes: 0

The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled word, the layers of air in the semi-vowels. Votes: 0

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product. Votes: 0

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did. Votes: 0

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface. Votes: 0

Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. Votes: 0

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations. Votes: 0

He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers." Votes: 0

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. Votes: 0

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad. Votes: 0

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background. Votes: 0

I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold. Votes: 0

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. Votes: 0

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My favorite colors come from the shades of local earth. Dig in the ground and you'll find so many layers of color-amazing yellows, sand, browns, black, beige. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it. Votes: 0

When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers. Votes: 0

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage. Votes: 0

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

"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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves. Votes: 0

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 know child. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Tex shrink-wrapped a dealer's BMW. Wrapped the wholething in plastic wrap and then used a portable blow drier on itto tighten the plastic. Wordhas it, it was several layers deep." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed. Votes: 0

Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning. Votes: 0

In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial. Votes: 0

I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding. Votes: 0

I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting. Votes: 0

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level. Votes: 0

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow. Votes: 0

For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds. Votes: 0

There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty. Votes: 0

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise. Votes: 0

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties Votes: 0

I'm naturally a personable person. I feel like figuring out ways to have my personality shine through outside of just a three minute song helped. I have layers, there are many different sides to Torae. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on. Votes: 0