Layers Quotations

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.

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

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.

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

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.

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.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

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

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

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic.

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

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.

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.

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.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

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.

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

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

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

For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

For me, wigs and hairpieces are an everyday part of my life. One day I can wear what I like to call my 'Back to you, Barbara' look - professional and full of layers - and the next day you may see me in my 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' look - curly, fun and bubbly.

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.

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

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

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.

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

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

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.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing.

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.

I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.

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.

As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

Everyone has different layers to who they are.

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

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.

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.

Shooting against greenscreen... my choice of filming is, like, I'd rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I'd rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.

As moisturizers, oils rapidly penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, protecting against the breakdown of proteins in the cell wall with fatty and linoleic acids, mimicking what our bodies produce naturally. The oils also function as humectants, which help our skin retain moisture.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.

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

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

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

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

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.

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.

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

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.

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.

When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'

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.

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social whether it's on the web, or mobile, or other devices.

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

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

Usually, it takes between 10 and 20 layers to get the desired coating,

We're finding that many people are simply turning the thermostat back a few degrees and putting on a few extra layers of clothing such as a warm sweatshirt or flannel nightwear or even keeping warm with a quilt or throw or fuzzy slippers,

We're finding abundant evidence for alteration of rocks in a water environment. What we want to do is figure out which layers were on top of which other layers. To do that it has been helpful to keep climbing for good views of how the layers are tilted to varying degrees. Understanding the sequence of layers is equivalent to having a deep drill core from drilling beneath the plains.

With weather this cold, it's never a bad idea to stay inside. If you do have to go out, dress in layers and, especially with the wind-chills, keep as much skin covered as possible.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

When you say mainstream, that usually implies mediocre. And this is not mediocre. There's probably a good chance that it could be the most widely seen of any of his movies, but he's still peeling the layers away, looking at how weird we are, looking at how strangely we look at the world, looking at how prickly we can be, looking at how paranoid we can be.

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.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer.

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.

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

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

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

I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.

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

There are four layers of threads on the top and three layers of threads on the side.

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

There are up to 8 layers in an average power chip, and IBM ( Profile , Products , Articles ) appears to have used just the right technology that gave them the fastest speed and least heat needed in each layer of the chip.

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

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.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

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.

Many layers and things take time to trickle down,

Since 9/11, (security) has taken on new dimensions that they didn't have before. There are many different layers of security in the process.

Since January 2006, we're doing everything on the Internet. We've converted our software to Web-based tools and added mapping capabilities for growers to manage many data layers online. We're totally Web-based.

Monetization of several new products such as local, mail, talk, base, and many others have not even begun and may represent many layers of future growth.

Natural disasters always reveal the social order of things -- the social disorder really, and that's what we're seeing here. You start peeling away the layers with an event like this hurricane, and the ugliness comes up from beneath very quickly.

Plot, plot and more plot. Many layers to the storytelling and a huge cast of characters that are very well developed,