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Layer by layer art strips life bare. -- Robert Musil
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. -- Patty Duke
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There is a Precious Mountain Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare A cold moon rises through the pines Layer upon layer of bright clouds How many towering peaks? How many wandering miles? The valley streams run clear Happiness forever! -- Hanshan
Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative. -- Adrienne Mayor
Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes? -- Robert Musil
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. -- Werner Herzog
So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle. -- Dean Stockwell
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg
I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation. -- Conrad Wolfram
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. -- James Huneker
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer. -- Susan Powter
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Edward Abbey
'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score. -- Hans Zimmer
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do? -- Charlene, Princess of Monaco
Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length. -- Karl Ferdinand Braun
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st. -- Clement Attlee
The way I see it is that love can put an end to this bureaucracy people go through in their relationships. But it can't blind you to the fact that maybe there are bombs, there are problems and the ozone layer is depleting. -- Adrienne Shelly
The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another. -- Kelis
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Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city. -- Jaime Lerner
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process. -- Herman Kahn
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness. -- Shari Arison
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. -- Noam Chomsky
Since I was growing up in New Zealand where there's a hole in the ozone layer above us, we get so much sun damage to our skin, and the thing we can do to look after ourselves is use sunscreen during the day, but making sure your skin is well hydrated while you sleep. -- Rose McIver
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
When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world. -- Yves Rossy
Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us. -- Shari Arison
Thereâ??s blood beneath every layer of skin. -- Alexander McQueen
The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine. -- Glenn Greenwald
The body is the outermost layer of the mind. -- David Mitchell
Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination. -- Thylias Moss
Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. -- Michael Chiklis
Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit. -- Donna Karan
Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril. -- Sven Birkerts
Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict. -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top. -- Jennifer Pahlka
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. -- Albert Einstein
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within. -- Bob Dylan
I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation. -- Bobbi Brown
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. -- Juliette Binoche
There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place. -- Bootsy Collins
They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out. -- Suzanne Collins
I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer. -- Ram Dass
Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness. -- Janet Fitch
Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. -- J. K. Rowling
When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting, 10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread. -- Kellan Lutz
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. -- Alberto Moravia
I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything. -- Cassandra Clare
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men. -- Jane Harman
I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there. -- Eden Robinson
Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words. -- Donalyn Miller
People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed. -- Lee Child
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. -- Roger Daltrey
There's nothing under the ground that's worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it. -- Wendell Berry
Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us. -- Swami Vivekananda
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. -- Arthur Golden
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
That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light. -- Cristin Milioti
Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds. -- Woody Allen
I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city. -- Shay Mitchell
Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all. -- Myles Munroe
I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic. -- April Greiman
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. -- Chinua Achebe
Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche. -- Natalie Goldberg
As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through. -- Connie Zweig
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. -- Gillian Flynn
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives. -- Steven Erikson
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
Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body. -- Jessica Biel
We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it! -- Lewis Black
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. -- Shulamith Firestone
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly. -- Kia Carrington-Russell
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks. -- Joel Salatin
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently. -- Linus Torvalds
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes. -- Max Lerner
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Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching. -- Bridget Fonda
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have. -- Tom Ford
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. --
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
A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life. -- Emmy Rossum
That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons. -- Mitch Hedberg
I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are. -- Dee White
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives. -- Denis Waitley
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core. -- Afnan Ahmad Mia
Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer. -- Charlie Munger
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America. -- Paul Ryan
The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns. -- Dave Barry
Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things. -- Tatiana Maslany
I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer, like any other picture. -- Kerry James Marshall
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world. -- Vera Nazarian
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul. -- Swami Vivekananda
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
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The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge. -- Ellen Gallagher
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. -- Johannes Stark
It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow. -- Murray Edelman
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air. -- Jodi Picoult
Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe. -- Lemmy Kilmister
Judd Apatow, Conan O'Brien ... taking what you think is funny, and then adding another layer to it. That's kind of my sensibility. Those are the guys that make me laugh. -- Joe Buck
Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl. -- Ken Burns
My skin is a bit sensitive, so Cetaphil is my standby. I also use toner and a light layer of moisturizerâ??I use a lot of Kiehl's and other natural brands. -- Claire Danes
Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze. -- Jerry Stahl
My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it! -- Emily Carr
The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques. -- Rami Ollaik
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. -- Douglas Coupland
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice. -- Jean Giraudoux
Man â?? despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments â?? owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. -- Paul Harvey
It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill. -- James Blake
I'm a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me? -- Theophilus London
Im a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me? -- Theophilus London

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