Onions Quotes - Page 4

As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Past, Voice

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Smell, Garlic, Peasants

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1954). “Don Quixote”, London ; Montreal : Penguin Books

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The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it's just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.

Misha Collins

Philosophical, Character, Play

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I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

Emily Blunt

Thinking, Talking, Cooking

The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.

Danielle LaPorte

People, Bags, Magazines

"Danielle LaPorte | Multimedia Author, Speaker, Poet". Interview with Rachel Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

Nate Silver

Cartoon, Analysis, Kind

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The onion being eaten, yea though it be boyled, causeth head-ache, hurteth the eyes, and maketh a man dimme sighted, dulleth the senses, ingendreth windinesse, and provoketh overmuch sleepe, especially being eaten raw

John Gerard

Eye, Men, Ache

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What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

Murray Gell-Mann

Beautiful, Math, Simple

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I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.

Jack Bruce

Player, Thinking, People

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He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.

Frank McCourt

Country, War, Dark

Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Andre Dubus

Mother, Stars, Vegetables

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Take care to chop the onion fine.

Laura Esquivel

Food, Cooking, Care

Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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This kind of mixing of ingredients happens all the time at fast-food places... You know when you order french fries and there's a rogue onion ring at the bottom. You know, at first you're alarmed but you eat it. It all comes from the same place! You just have to go for it.

Chelsea Handler

Order, Mixing, Onion Rings

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On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Squares, August, Two

FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 13, 2012

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Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

Kenneth Grahame

Sauce

Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.3

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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.

Diana Wynne Jones

Eye, Skulls, Teeth

"Wizard's Castle". Book by Diana Wynne Jones (p.71), 2002.

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Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don't love you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Love You, Elephants, Ivory

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She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.

Lauren Groff

Girl, Daughter, Mother

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New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.

Bill Maher

Flower, Gay, Kind

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Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.

Susan Branch

Children, Dip, Funny Kitchen

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When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

James Montgomery Bailey

Best Love, Couple, People

James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.230

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Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Brendan Morrison

Hockey, Nhl, Cry

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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

Vegetables, Important, Beets

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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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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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