Quotes About Layers

Houses made of houses within houses made of time.

"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.

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.

In the rearview mirror I saw Ivan half running behind the car, and I felt despair and envy. Of course he couldn't love me, not when I lived through so many layers, when I was spooked by Montmartre, and wore a seat belt in order to steer a car out of a ditch.

According to the artichoke theory, man had some inner essence, or "heart"; according to the onion theory, once you had unwrapped all the layers of society off of man, there was nothing there. Seen from this perspective, the idea of an onion masquerading as an artichoke seemed sinister, even sociopathic.

The opinion of the people on any problem is like an onion because it brings often tears in eyes upon peeling it off but no solution.

Sweetie, if love could take away sadness, I'd be the happiest woman on earth. Sometimes the sadness is so deep, we have to sift through all the layers before we can find it and send it packing. That's what I'm trying to do in this place. Find my sadness.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.

People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life...

You can never have enough winter jackets.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.

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.

With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.

To shift to a voice metaphor, the gospels contain two voices: the voice of Jesus and the voice of the community. Both layers and voices are important. The former tell us about the pre-Easter Jesus; the latter are the witness and testimony of the community to what Jesus had become in their experience in the decades after Easter.5

Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

all she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money

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.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.