Onions Quotes - Page 7

• If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Evil, Black

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1164, Bantam

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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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• ...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

  Graham Greene

  Miserable, Individual, Make Me Happy

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Dark, Night

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.172, Bantam

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• 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

  Heart, White, Where You Come

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• Don't get me wrong. I love a Denver omelette as much as the next girl. But I'm curious whether that’s your thing, or if you try to change up the routine depending on the specific woman. You know… like, green pepper because I have green eyes, ham because I’m so funny, and onions for all the tears you’ll shed after I leave.

  Julie James

  Girl, Eye, Tears

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.74, Penguin

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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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• A good hamburger mix: add equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, onion powder and some chopped onion. And mix in a little barbecue sauce, which will add even more great flavor.

  Johnny Trigg

  Black, Add, Flavor

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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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• 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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• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Cooking, Ceilings

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

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• It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Roots, Cooking

  Lewis Carroll, Nickolas Cook (2011). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.144, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Book, Beer, Names

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

  Tobsha Learner

  Eye, Tears, Cases

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• Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

  Helen Waddell

  Truth, Coats, Hollow

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Talking, Careers

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• We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

  Jon Anderson

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Ideas

  "The idea is to unravel the onion". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2003.

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• My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.

  George Washington

  Vegetables, Bed, Hot

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• I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

  Simon Rich

  Normal, Strange, Hobbes

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• There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no personality in it, it's not something you want to go back for. But heart without any skill at all? All the heart in the world ain't gonna help you if you can't peel an onion, or if you don't understand how to apply heat properly. A well-done steak is a well-done steak.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Heart, Skills, Personality

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• I like the public hot-tub at the hotels. I like when a guy is already in there, I say, "Hey, do you mind if I join you?" Then I go turn the heat up, and I add some carrots and onions.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Want

  Tim Vine (2012). “The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition”, p.110, Random House

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• I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.

  Heather Mitts

  Morning, Cutting, Mushrooms

  Source: preview.www.realbeauty.com

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• The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

  James Beard

  Food, Heart, Adventure

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.8, Open Road Media

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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

  Tears, Next, Cry

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

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