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Onions Quotes

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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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Authors on Onions Quotes: Joseph Wambaugh Nathaniel Hawthorne Laura Esquivel Yevgeny Yevtushenko Catherynne M. Valente Mark Lawrenson Susan Branch Annie Besant Danielle LaPorte Helen Waddell Stacie Orrico Billy West John Gerard Phyllis Diller Karl Lagerfeld Richard Eder Terry Pratchett Chelsea Handler Liam Neeson Robin McKinley Alice Waters Miguel de Cervantes Carrie Fisher George Ellwanger Stan Freberg Ambrose Bierce Johnny Trigg Dallas Campbell Roald Dahl Chrissy Teigen Jared Leto Fanny Brice Ray Bradbury
2.
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
Julia Child

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The onion is the truffle of the poor.
Robert J Courtine

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

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

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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.
Zoe Helene

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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.
Arthur Bloch

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

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

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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!
Laura Esquivel

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

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

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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.
Susan Branch

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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.
Liam Neeson

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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.
Joseph Wambaugh

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

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

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

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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.
Larry Moss

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

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Take care to chop the onion fine.
Laura Esquivel

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

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Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell

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

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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.
Anne Burrell

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

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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.
Billy West

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

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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.
Joel Spolsky

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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.
Warren G. Bennis

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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.
Steve Carell

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
Annie Besant

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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.
Stacie Orrico

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

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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!
Carrie Fisher

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

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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.
Dallas Campbell

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

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

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

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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.
Robert D Bullard

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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.
Rufus Choate

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Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
Jonathan Swift

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