Onions Quotes - Page 6

• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Wine, Self

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• I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Eye, Cutting, Skins

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• This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Cooking, Roaches, Taverns

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.557

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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

  Government, Different, Layers

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• Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Eye, Ice Water

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

  Fanny Brice

  Bagels, Plates

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• His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blows onion rings.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Smell

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• My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.

  Tyler Florence

  Fall, Simple, Mushrooms

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

  Jared Leto

  Onion Rings, Rings

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• I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake--forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck--'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook--he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mistake, Voice, Doors

  Shel Silverstein, “Strange Restaurant”

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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

  People, Layers, Violence

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• Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

  Robin McKinley

  Pushing, Doe, Cigar

  Robin McKinley (2016). “The Blue Sword”, p.16, HarperCollins

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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

  Layers, Cry, Peeling

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• We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.

  John Green

  Coffee, Winter, Kissing

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.139, Penguin

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• I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.

  Ringo Starr

  Crazy, Moving, Spices

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• I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

  Raymond Chandler

  Splits, Pearls, Bananas

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

  Caitlin Moran

  Sweat, Smell, Issues

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Dirty, Boys

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.150, Vintage

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• Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fruit Salad, Feelings, Streets

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.92, Random House

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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

  Competition, Mixtures, Excitement

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Names, Pie

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.216, Faber & Faber

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• Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

  Roald Dahl

  Years, Sage, Littles

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.80, Penguin

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

  Juliette Binoche

  Acting, Layers, Peeling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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