Peel Layers Quotes

#1. As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

Amy Waldman

#2. I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.

Taraji P. Henson

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

Rumi

#4. The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me, but it's also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.

Edward Norton

#5. It's entirely in your power to regulate the degree to which you peel back the layers of your personality when you disclose yourself to someone. You can keep that person on the surface, or you can allow her to penetrate, by degrees or directly, to the core.

Harriet B. Braiker

#6. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Steve Jobs

#7. Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Warren G. Bennis

#8. They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

Denis Johnson

#9. 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

#10. Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.

Vironika Tugaleva

#11. Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath

Kameron Hurley

#12. Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

Ricky Williams

#14. Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

Leza Lowitz

#15. That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

David Bergen

#16. In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a crowd contagion.

Alexandra Robbins

#17. I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

Chuck Close

#18. 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

#19. I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Edward Norton

#20. I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

Abba Kovner

#21. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#22. I feel like I'll have to peel back layers over layers, remove piece by piece of him, to get to know him.

J.C. Reed

#23. You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

Craig Thompson

#24. If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

Oprah Winfrey

#25. I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

Ricky Williams

#26. I love getting older," I muse as I carefully begin to peel the layers away. "You're closer to death, but there are presents.

Abby McDonald

#27. In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.

Veronica Roth

#28. The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

Carrie Vaughn

#29. Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.

Brad Goreski

#30. Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.

Matt Forbeck

#31. some of my layers had started to peel away.

Karina Halle

#32. We must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.

Chogyam Trungpa

#33. It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

Nick Offerman

#34. Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick

Angel M.B. Chadwick