Quotes About Layers

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

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

Preciso ver meu psiquiatra agora. Sou obrigada a ir. Eu invento coisas para dizer. Não sei o que ele pensa de mim. Ele diz que sou uma cebola normal! Dou muito trabalho para ele ficar descascando as camadas.

Devo vedere il mio psichiatra. Vogliono rimettermi in carreggiata, ma io invento le cose che gli dico. Non so cosa pensi di me, dice che sono una cipolla umana: lo tengo occupato a pelare gli strati.

There is comfort in such accumulations, layers of lives, of years. Gardening tools, wheelbarrow, arousal cans, old bicycles, recycling bins, battered trash cans, cardboard boxes stacked in a corner, cracked clay pots, exiled kitchenware & furniture, antique television, dog food bowls. You could do an inventory of a household by all that has been worn out or excluded, exiled from it. You could do an inventory of a life.

Geschichten in Geschichten in Geschichten. Man weiß nie, wo eine endet und eine andere beginnt! In Wahrheit fließen alle ineinander. Nur in Büchern sind sie säuberlich getrennt.

Stories within stories within stories. You never know where one ends and another begins! In truth, they all flow into one another. It's only in books that they're clearly divided.

Restorative Justice} allowed you two hold two things in your head at the same time...that's what community was, all those layers of understanding.

I told you. Government." ?"But what part of it—CIA, military, who?" ?"Government within government within government. Like Matrioshka." ?"What's that?" ?"Dolls within dolls." ?"You mean Russian dolls?" ?"I mean, Matrioshka," the old woman snapped.

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Douglas Preston

Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong.

Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.

My personal style is very eclectic. I like graphic shapes and multiple layers.

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.

Nobody wants to see an engagement photo with you in your ratty jeans and t-shirt. Go for layers, and you're always going to look like you made more of an effort.

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

I want to discover the deeper layers of His word, understand the tender mercies of His heart.

There are so many layers to what makes you feel empowered. Obviously, self-love. If you can't get into that, you can't get into moving to care about others and changing the world.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

As you keep pulling back the layers of how deeply rooted anti-blackness and white supremacy are in this country, it is exhausting, and it is traumatizing.

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