Quotes and Sayings About Onions
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
-- Adam Johnson -
I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.
-- Alice Waters -
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 -
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 -
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 -
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
-- Arthur Golden -
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
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 -
The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion
-- Bobby Gould -
Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.
-- Brendan Morrison -
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac -
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
-- Derrick Jensen -
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
-- Elizabeth Robins Pennell -
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
-- Erma Bombeck -
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
-- George Ellwanger -
Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.
-- Helen Waddell -
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 -
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
-- Joseph Wambaugh -
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
-- Joseph Wambaugh -
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 -
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
-- Julia Child -
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
-- Juliette Binoche -
We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.
-- Leslie White -
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 -
This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.
-- Louise Fitzhugh -
These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
-- Mark Lawrenson
