Layers Quotes - Page 7

I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

Boris Pasternak

Writing, Broken, Routine

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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

Chris Ofili

Art, School, Thinking

"A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

Maj Sjowall

Book, Views, People

"The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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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

Character, Trying, Novelists

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You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

Matthew Crawford

Bullshit, Personality, Firsts

Matthew Crawford (2010). “The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good”, p.12, Penguin UK

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The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge.

Steven Chu

Strong, Expansion, Needs

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Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Book, Connections, Rothschild

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As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have to find something of ourselves in them. Each character, even those only there to serve the mechanics of the plot, should have a number of layers. The entire world you are stepping into as a reader must feel real. It must have resonance, you must be able to touch the light; smell the smells.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Strong, Real, Character

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3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.

Tim Burton

Emotional, Thinking, Sound

Interview with Marc Lee, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 4, 2010.

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It's cold out. It's even cold in Florida. So cold today that Katherine Harris put on a third layer of makeup.

Jay Leno

Makeup, Florida, Today

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Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

Frederick Lenz

Humility, Compassion, Selfless Giving

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It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

Lewis Black

Funny, Stupid, Humor

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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Werner Herzog

Ocean, Ice, Civilization

Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Werner Herzog (2004). “Nosferatu--Phantom der Nacht”, British Film Institute

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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

Quentin Tarantino

Movie, Song, Writing

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So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

Haruki Murakami

Farewell, Loss, Play

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 19, 2012

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The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

Hermann Hesse

Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Clever, Smart, Knitting

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Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Luanne Rice

Love Is, Expectations, Doubt

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It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.

Ahdaf Soueif

Passion, Voice, Shining

Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

Holly Black

Mother, Dog, Cutting

Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

Isaac Asimov

Running, War, Cutting

Isaac Asimov (1991). “The secret of the universe”, Doubleday Books

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Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman's emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax.

David Deida

Love Is, Men, Emotional

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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Mark Twain

Dream, Coffee, Home

Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

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I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.

Kerry Cohen

Hurt, Pain, Hands

Kerry Cohen (2008). “Loose Girl”, p.253, Random House

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