A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.
For the first time his senses began to register the exotic, heady atmosphere of Mumbai...the odors most insistently demanded his attention. There were layers upon layers of them, all present at once but individually distinct. They shifted in strength...
Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by someth...
All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.
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.
There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.
By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are.
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
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.
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.
Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
