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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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