Quotes About Layers

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

This was what we Japanese called the "onion life"—peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

The West Side had become a land where people lived in layers. It was a land of prosperous immigrants. It was a place where people rented, rather than owned

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers, None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

My mind works on several levels at once.1

My heart was an onion making me cry.

She was honey-sweet and perfect... But that was just the surface layer; deeper there was more: darkness and sadness and pain

The hard part that I didn't like about recruiting in college was, there was so many regulations. So many rules. It was so many layers to it in the recruiting that I just got fed up with it.

Everyone relates to the heroes - that's why they're the heroes. But I've realized there are just more layers to characters who have been through something dark.

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.

Su cerebro es tan complejo que nunca trabaja únicamente a un nivel. Es como un yacimiento arqueológico interminable: cuando crees que has alcanzado la última capa y dejas caer el pico por última vez, descubres que hay otra mina entera debajo. Con un laberinto de túneles y pozas sin fondo.

'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 have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.

many people, not just Americans, make the mistake of taking it neat. He explained how Scotch is made, saying, 'Fer heaven's sake, we add bloody water to it with great violence before we put it in the bloody bottle.' He explained how adding a splash of water opens the spirit up, unfolding layers of complexity on the tongue.

It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no.

Now that the weather had turned more chill, he could cheerfully—or what passed as cheerfully in Nate-adjusted terms—pile on oversized sweaters and baggy cords and scarves until he was a moving pile of natural and synthetic fibers.

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Layers of orange like a buttermilk pie cooling on the horizon.

When we gaze at the world, we do not fathom the many layers of apparatus that underlie our unified visual experience, until neurological disease dissects them for us.

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

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