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I have no small talk and Peel has no manners. -- Duke of Wellington
Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. -- Derek Walcott
Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel? -- L.A. Meyer
The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people. -- Jim Highsmith
I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s. -- Natalie Dormer
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. -- Isaac Marion
Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care! -- Rumi
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit. -- Maureen Dowd
Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato -- The Notorious B.I.G.
How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun. -- Mitch Hedberg
I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and listened to all of them. These definitely have at least a superficial relationship to each other because they're all very spare. -- Will Oldham
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. -- Quentin Crisp
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. -- Juliette Binoche
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg
I like to peel it and share it with friends. You can spread the love with an orange. -- Gina Rodriguez
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
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. -- Edward Norton
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. -- Alan Watts
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies. -- Danny DeVito
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them. -- Annie Leibovitz
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably. -- George Ayittey
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. -- Douglas Coupland
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. -- Nora Ephron
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered. -- Park Chan-wook
Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile. -- Douglas Fairbanks
Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working! -- Guy Fieri
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. -- Ricky Williams
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.' -- Chris Farley
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about. -- Ricky Williams
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. -- Penelope Cruz
I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy. -- Elaine Stritch
For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe. -- Dule Hill
I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!' -- Phil Mickelson
There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely. -- David Bowie
Beulah, peel me a grape -- Mae West
The banana peel is the condom of the fruit world. -- Jarod Kintz
His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim. -- Charlotte Curtis
Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive? -- Ice Cube
Love and I have been a duo since empty banana peel. -- Jarod Kintz
he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean -- Anne Carson
Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world. -- Leza Lowitz
It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers. -- Nick Offerman
You better peel your eyes out so you don't miss a thing, alright! -- Kazue Kato
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere. -- Robert Fulghum
I'm all about safe fruit. After I peel a banana, I roll on a condom. -- Jarod Kintz
An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. -- Walter Raleigh
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it. -- Katharine Hepburn
A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. -- Ian Fleming
Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. -- Jodi Picoult
Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath. -- Francesca Lia Block
But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. -- Jodi Picoult
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. -- Mark Ruffalo
Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it. -- Kenneth Clark
If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you. -- Oprah Winfrey
I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel. -- Elvis Presley
Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off. -- Helen Waddell
To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping. -- Sidney Morgenbesser
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. -- Arthur Miller
Red onion skins and New Year's Eve have much in common - they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy. -- Alex Morritt
Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing. -- Brad Goreski
I peel cats like I pet oranges. And I often snuggle with watermelons, sometimes with the intent of making love. -- Jarod Kintz
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
I've been making pizza dough lately. And I'm pretty sure the calzone was invented when a pizza got stuck on the peel... -- Richard Blais
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances"¦I may be an orange peel. -- J. D. Salinger
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. -- Diane Lane
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When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. -- Nora Ephron
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. -- Anthony Bourdain
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. --
Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. -- Vironika Tugaleva
They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped. -- Denis Johnson
Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom. -- J.R. Ward
Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there. -- Rick Wakeman
Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten. -- Sara Shepard
The burning red taste of blood floods my mouth. The sparkle of life sprays out of his cells like citrus mist from an orange peel, and I suck it in. -- Isaac Marion
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. -- Louis MacNeice
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows. -- Julie Gregory
I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God." -- Emma Watson
He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully. -- Robert Hass
I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare. -- Tyra Banks
we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio. -- Benny Blanco
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
Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today. -- David McCullough
I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back. -- Taraji P. Henson
Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions. -- Ed Seykota
In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future. -- Veronica Roth
I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach. -- Sally Mann
When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy. -- Lynne Tillman

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