Overlaid Quotes

#1. The new Turkish identity, which I call Muslim nationalism, is that of a pious Muslim Turk whose subjectivity and vision for the future is shaped by an imperial Ottoman past overlaid onto a republican state framework, but divorced from the Kemalist state project.

Jenny White

#2. I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off ... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

Georges Braque

#3. AMEL (A'MEL) n.s.[email, Fr.]The matter with which the variegated works are overlaid, which we call enamelled. The materials of glass melted with calcined tin, compose an undiaphanous body. This white amel is the basis of all those fine concretes that goldsmiths and artificers

Samuel Johnson

#4. The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration.

William Gibson

#5. Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts
census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

Thomas Pynchon

#7. Lady Mary came last. She looked magnificent, even regal. Her dress was highly fashionable; dark slate blue overlaid with black fleur-de-lis and stitched with jet beads across the throat and bosom, the sleeves garnered. A black hat adorned her head at a rakish angle, dashing and precarious.

Anne Perry

#8. He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death.
- Secret Worship

Algernon Blackwood

#9. [A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five
seven
eighteen
forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... '
So it comes with all faiths.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

Jeremy Collier

#11. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#12. The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily the 'war on terror' is overlaid with politics and hypocrisy.

Stephen Kinzer

#13. It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

William Mackergo Taylor

#14. Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid
it might as well be dead.

Alice Munro

#15. The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

Tahir Shah

#16. Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.

Philippa Gregory

#17. The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast - burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations - that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#18. I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.

Ranbir Kapoor

#19. You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

Cleveland Amory

#20. And the three of them are uncannily reminiscent of Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

Stephanie Perkins

#21. Rituals help us change modes.

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

#22. I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

Kara Walker

#23. Whatever storm was brewing, I'd find it and fight it. If it was the price of being with Curran, then I would pay it. He was worth it.

Ilona Andrews