Multiple Layers Quotes

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

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.

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

The hard part that I didn't like about recruiting in college was, there was so many regulations. So many rules. It was so many layers to it in the recruiting that I just got fed up with it.

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

My texts are written like palimpsests. They are written over and over again, until I feel that a kind of metaphysical meaning can be read through the writing.

I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think.

There is a world inside the world.

I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

I have to wear six pairs of speedos when I run.

My personal style is very eclectic. I like graphic shapes and multiple layers.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

I personally would rather layer up than put on a big, heavy coat.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Beneath every history, another history.