Layered Quotes

#1. World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.

Martin McGuinness

#2. Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

River Phoenix

#3. 'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.

Nic Pizzolatto

#4. I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

Tamara Feldman

#5. Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.

Joss Whedon

#6. The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse
those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured.

Tash

#7. Like Berlin, I was layered with guilt and destruction. I had caused grief as well as suffering it. I could never honestly point a finger without it turning around in mid-accusation. Olivia

Janet Fitch

#8. But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsistent, and paradoxical as our own lives are?

Molly Peacock

#9. I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

M. Night Shyamalan

#10. The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.

Jonathan Stroud

#11. O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Gabriel Byrne

#12. It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

William P. Young

#13. The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#14. Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Ashwin Sanghi

#15. That being said, experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.

Patrick Lencioni

#16. The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

Greg Graffin

#17. I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.

Judy Greer

#18. I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

Gary Numan

#19. Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Naoto Fukasawa

#20. Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.

Mary Balogh

#21. The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

Toyin Odutola

#22. The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.

Joel Sartore

#23. Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so "real" is undefined and can not be experienced. Only your experience can be experienced, and that does not encompass everything or anything.

Laren Grey Umphlett

#24. Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

Charles Correa

#25. I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

Lorraine Toussaint

#26. A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.

Odd Nerdrum

#27. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter ... or at least, most minds are ...

J.K. Rowling

#28. I do love listening to singles casually, but that moment, the thing I'm mining the singles for, is something that makes me dig deeper and find a layered offering that allows for discovery after discovery.

Crowder

#29. I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Bruce Springsteen

#30. With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed.

Michelle Richmond

#31. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

Tom Robbins

#32. If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.

Justin Trudeau

#33. Introverts have layered personalities, and they prefer to slowly unpeel the layers as they bond with people over time.

Adam S. McHugh

#34. There's no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense

James Scott

#35. The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.

Jennifer Granholm

#36. Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating?
No.
Then dont make him a tagalong!

Lisi Harrison

#37. One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.

Scott Adams

#38. But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.

Lauren Myracle

#39. Beyond the window was the parking lot and beyond that the desert, and beyond that the sky, mostly void, partially stars. Layered

Joseph Fink

#40. Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

Gary Hoey

#41. I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

Steven Soderbergh

#42. He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him.

Cora Carmack

#43. Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

Terry Goodkind

#44. We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

Vidal Sassoon

#45. And if, for some awful reason, you forget that money is a game, a make-believe concept that some people invented, you could be led back into the complex layered world of Should. And here, the loss isn't a financial one. You are the cost. Is it worth it?

Elle Luna

#46. All these private, parallel dimensions, underlying such an innocuous little estate; all these self-contained worlds layered onto the same space.

Tana French

#47. Most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layered
will make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the window
do what faces usually do they open onto a genetic history
that looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive

Cole Swensen

#48. Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

Mitch Albom

#49. I actually wear two fragrances. It's a layered mystery.

Erin Heatherton

#50. It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

Geraldine Brooks

#51. Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.

Brene Brown

#52. Twenty thousand days and nights in one place, each layered and trapped and folded on top of the last, the creases in her hands, the aches between her vertebrae. Embryo, seed coat, endosperm: What is a seed if not the purest kind of memory, a link to every generation that has gone before it?

Anthony Doerr

#53. I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

Kaki King

#54. 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.

Sean William Scott

#55. In my work, and in my psyche, there's some very sentimental, traditional, conventional side that's always in argument with a more radical, sarcastic side. Some of my stories are really sentimental, but they're layered over with weird, satirical stuff.

George Saunders

#56. When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.

Daryl Hall

#57. Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

Emmy Rossum

#58. A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.

Lorrie Moore

#59. my life seemed more fully layered because of the choices I had made, both consciously and in ignorance. I

Susan Meissner

#60. Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

Kevin Kelly

#61. When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Leonard Maltin

#62. What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

Dean Koontz

#63. I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.

Lili Taylor

#64. I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

Kelli Garner

#65. Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.

Mohsin Hamid

#66. It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.

John Goodlad

#67. Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.

Kyle Cassie

#68. You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

Melissa George

#69. I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

Sally Mann

#70. We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

Deb Caletti

#71. I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.

Eva Hoffman

#72. Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

Piers Paul Read

#73. Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.

Suzanne Palmieri

#74. He'd felt himself give others the exact same look she was giving him, a mental fuck you layered with a middle finger against authority.

Rhys Ford

#75. I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

Regina King

#76. The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

J.K. Rowling

#77. A person is never as quiet as they seem, we are thickly layered page lying upon page behind simple covers.

Deb Caletti

#78. There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.

John Shelby Spong

#79. Love is a possession; it's something that you own from the layers of people in your life. But if my life were a cake it would be un-layered, unbaked, missing ingredients. I isolated myself too soundly to own anyone's love.

Tarryn Fisher

#80. I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

Alan Rickman

#81. And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

Janet Napolitano

#82. I think back to the Modern Family pilot when we didn't know that Julie Bowen had a spotty party girl past, but that's something that we layered in, throughout the first season. That's just part of the fun of series television. You get to discover these things.

Jason Winer

#83. Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions.
Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but food.Wolves or worms,the end abrupt or lingering,it matter not in the least.

Steven Erikson

#84. Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Gail Carriger

#85. Akhmed's eight-day-old eyes had held the reflection of ten thousand possible lives. Khassan wasn't an emotive or superstitious man, and nothing like it had ever happened again, but he had found, layered in the infant's half-lidded eyes, innumerable, wanting faces, none of which he had recognized.

Anthony Marra

#86. I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

Dave Navarro

#87. The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.

Gordon Gee

#88. My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#89. The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other ... they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down ...

Lauren Oliver

#90. What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

Brian May

#91. Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers ... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

Kay WalkingStick

#92. There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.

Christopher Nolan

#93. Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

Tobsha Learner

#94. we are all afraid. We are all confident. We are all warriors on this road of life, and we're all a mess sometimes. Girls are multifaceted, complicated, layered, and emotional beings. So who better to understand us than other girls?

Alexis Jones

#95. When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

Park Chan-wook

#96. He has definitely cornered the market on enigma. I hope Stella goes for the deeply layered type.

Tera Lynn Childs

#97. I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.

Shane Carruth

#98. Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.

Phill Jupitus

#99. There was something vampiric about. music. It must have sounded supernatural even to those who don't believe in the supernatural ... the way harmony could be layered upon harmony until you felt yourself dissolving in the sound. So eloquent of dread it was, this music.

Anne Rice

#100. 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

Florence Welch