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Quotes About Layers

In policy arena after policy arena, Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers to 1960s-era bureaucracies as they break down.
~ Ben Sasse
When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.
~ Sophie Okonedo
Onions are sacred to the Yezidis, perhaps because they have many layers and are thus "esoteric.")
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
one thing that separates good programmers from bad programmers is that good programmers are more facile at jumping between layers of abstraction—they can keep the layers distinct while making changes and choose the right layer to make changes in.
~ Peter Seibel
It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
~ Washed Out
I'll play about with different sounds in the studio with no concept of music at all. I'll just build up a song in layers and when it sounds all right and gives me a vibe, that's enough, and I'll add vocals and move on.
~ Tricky
I love vocals and what they can do, and the different layers they can create, and I really want to bring that into folk music in terms of arrangements and stuff.
~ Avi Kaplan
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.
~ John Burroughs
In the studio, we sometimes will add bass or some other stuff, like more layers of the same guitar part that's already there, but ultimately, the sound is about guitar and drums.
~ Liv Bruce
As human begins, we all have layers to ourselves, you know?
~ Erika Jayne
I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.
~ Jonathan Lethem
You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Abstract art involves complex layers and perspectives. To be distinct and hold a truly personalized view point, every element in the piece must be devised to be claimed as entirely mine. Meaning it's all based on sculpture, because most of what we know of photography involves capturing someone else's work, which I dislike.
~ Adamo Macri
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
~ Edward Norton
I meet people to like them, but some are onions to peel and others just blow up like a bomb!
~ Sonja Morgan
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
~ Juliette Binoche
In film and theater, you know the story and the journey from beginning to end, but with TV, you can keep peeling away layers and exploring a new world each week.
~ Rachel Boston
Women are like posters. One is stuck on top of another and covers it completely. Perhaps just for a moment, when the paste is still soft and the paper still wet and slightly transparent, you may still catch a vague impression of the splashes of color of the first, but soon there's no more trace of it. Then, when the second one is removed, both come away together, leaving your memory and your heart as blank as a wall.
~ Pitigrilli
Sanskrit describes five layers of self, or mind: Physical, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness.
~ PO BRONSON
He has ' le coeur comme un artichaud '. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' ' Oui . He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
There are so many layers of our own personality which are waiting to get unlocked. Sitting quietly in meditation practice everyday helps us to unlock these layers.
~ Purvi Raniga
Yoga has the power to take you to the unknown layers of your subconscious which helps you to unlock full potential of your body, mind and soul.
~ Purvi Raniga
Like all cities, Beirut has many layers, and I had been familiar with one or two. What I was introduced to that day with Ali and Kamal was the Beirut of its people. You take different groups, put them on top of each other, simmer for a thousand years, keep adding more and more strange tribes, simmer for another few thousand years, salt and pepper with religion, and what you get is a delightful mess of a stew that still tastes delectable and exotic, no matter how many times you partake of it.
~ Rabih Alameddine