Layers Quotes
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People have success with this method and it gets them excited. It gets them hooked. You can put layers of thick paint on thin paint and that allows you to complete a painting in one sitting.
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More Layers Quotes
[Plays that would] cut through time like a knife through a layer cake or a road through a mountain revealing its geologic layers.
Arthur Miller— 1987 Describing the plays he always wished to write. Timebends: A Life.
For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.
tariq ali— Referring to the Taliban. The Clash of Fundamentalisms (ISBN 1-85984-457-X), pg. 200.
Gottfried Helnwein's paintings evoke complex layers of history and psychology. Working with extraordinary technical sophistication, Helnwein seamlessly fuses traditional craftsmanship and contemporary conceptual investigations.
Gary Garrels— Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998), about Gottfried Helnwein.
How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there.
sheridan le fanu— Ch. 53 (Uncle Silas (1864))
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
thornton wilder— "Stage Manager"
The big fish tubs are completely lined with layers of beautiful herring scales and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered with creamy iridescent coats of mail, with small iridescent flies crawling on them.
Elizabeth Bishop— Poem: At the Fishhouses
These changes in identity and location can easily become nested inside each other, many layers deep, even if you aren't doing anything nefarious. Once you have forgotten who and where you are, the whoami command is indispensible.
neal stephenson— "The Oral Tradition"
No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.
richard weaver— “The Importance of Cultural Freedom,” p. 25
To the very end Trotsky remained a blind, pitiless (even when pitiable) giant, defending the right of the minority vanguard of the proletariat -- the Party -- to exercise its dictatorship over ‘the backward layers of the proletariat’ -- i.e., those who disagreed with the self-designated vanguard.
— Sidney Hook (1987). Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.
As we go through life, we’re piling on deeper and deeper layers of consciousness, which leads to a greater capacity to take multiple perspectives. It’s a little like the many layers of dessert piled on Miss Piggy’s plate at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Only with this, it’s less carbs and more nutrition.
Kermit the Frog— "The creative act of listening to a talking frog," TEDx Talk (2014)
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
— Theo de Raadt (2007) on the statement "Virtualization seems to have a lot of security benefits", misc@openbsd.org, October 23, 2007
