Layer Quotes

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)
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. View quote
Doris Lessing
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. View quote
Werner Herzog
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. View quote
Edward Abbey
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. View quote
Shari Arison
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. View quote
Patty Duke
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. View quote
Roger Daltrey
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. View quote
Juliette Binoche
Mao is a strange man whose personality is like the Tao, sometimes yin and sometimes yang; he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he will achieve anything, in the end, he will be crushed inside my palm. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
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! View quote
Lewis Black
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. (Carl Sandburg)
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. View quote
Herman Kahn
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within. View quote
Bob Dylan
The body is the outermost layer of the mind. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region. View quote
Bill Mollison
Layer by layer art strips life bare. View quote
Robert Musil
Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and subtle layer: "pure consciousness.”. View quote
Ervin László
In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple. View quote
Richard Preston
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. View quote
Shari Arison
There's nothing under the ground that's worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it. View quote
Wendell Berry
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)
I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer. View quote
David Rockwell
So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle. View quote
Dean Stockwell
In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima. View quote
Gabriel Lippmann
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. View quote
Ken Burns