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Onion sauce! Onion Sauce! -- Kenneth Grahame
Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full. -- James McBride
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. -- Erma Bombeck
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
If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day. -- Nick Offerman
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
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
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct. -- Scott Simon
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on. -- James Ellroy
As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the Onion, I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing. -- Christopher Hitchens
I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared. -- Tom Douglas
We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting. -- David Zucker
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
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet. -- Sonya Levien
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. -- Juliette Binoche
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. -- Will Rogers
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg
It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. -- Padma Lakshmi
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. -- James Huneker
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself. -- Howard Carter
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. -- Karl Pilkington
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out. -- Allan Savory
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
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level. -- Chuck Close
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. -- Mario Batali
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. -- Patty Duke
I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes? -- Leslie Bibb
While you can find zucchini in markets in most places year-round, allowing you to make everything from breakfast dishes like zucchini and onion frittatas to snacks like zucchini-stuffed crab cakes, the onset of fall marks the beginning of hard squash season. -- Marcus Samuelsson
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
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. -- Andre Leon Talley
My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time. -- Debi Mazar
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child. -- Lynda Resnick
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
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf. -- Jami Attenberg
Take care to chop the onion fine. -- Laura Esquivel
The onion is the truffle of the poor. -- Robert J Courtine
Before Julia Child there was only onion dip. -- Susan Branch
I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls! -- Fanny Brice
The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind. -- Ambrose Bierce
New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion. -- Bill Maher
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. -- Elizabeth Robins Pennell
We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking. -- Leslie White
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. -- Raymond Chandler
This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying. -- Brendan Morrison
He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers. -- Ray Bradbury
His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blows onion rings. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center. -- Richard Eder
It's funny. I don't like onions but I like onion rings. What's up with that? -- Jared Leto
Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew. -- Fabian
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw. -- Adam Johnson
Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad. -- Terry Pratchett
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. -- George Ellwanger
If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion. -- Lemony Snicket
Its an onion tree. Every time Sam takes off an onion, two more will grow in its place. -- Gail Bowen
Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off. -- Helen Waddell
Red onion skins and New Year's Eve have much in common - they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy. -- Alex Morritt
The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion -- Bobby Gould
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. -- Arthur Golden
People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy. -- Danielle LaPorte
My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold. -- George Washington
A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman -- Terry Pratchett
Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. -- Derrick Jensen
Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all. -- Myles Munroe
For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder. -- Johnny Trigg
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables. -- Bill Watterson
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
If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift. -- William Shakespeare
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
This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled. -- Jonathan Swift
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. -- Zoe Helene
I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread. -- Robert Orben
When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable. -- Robert D Bullard
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. --
The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado. -- Demian Bichir
My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake. -- Joan Rivers
Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core. -- Afnan Ahmad Mia
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
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
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list. -- Christina Hendricks
If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your car, (about the BMW X3). -- Jeremy Clarkson
If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat. -- Eric Ripert
Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul. -- Charles Dudley Warner
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
At his wife's 60th birthday party in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dick Cheney had a huge steak and battered onion rings for dinner. Afterwards he met with 100 donors, not campaign donors, heart donors -- Jay Leno
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
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
All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles. -- George Lindsey
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
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

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