Onions Quotes

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

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

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

It’s funny. I don’t like onions but I like onion rings. What’s up with that?

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.

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.

In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

You might be a redneck if you grow Vidalia onions, rather than considering them a gourmet item.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

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

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.