Top 961 Onion Rings Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

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.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself. Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest moisture-but from tears, not rainfall.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

[on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.

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

I want to find a niche crop that we can market to the world. Why can't we have the Almost Heaven Tomato? It can be the next Vidalia Onion or Idaho potato.

... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

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

I am the Internet guy. But the reason the 'Onion News Empire' was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now.

Touring Seoul is like an onion that you keep peeling away layer after layer.

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

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

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

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!

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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.

For news, I follow 'The New York Times,' 'The New Yorker,' and 'ProPublica.' For entertainment, I like The A.V. Club and The Onion.

At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black writer. I used to write 'Spider-Man,' 'Green Lantern,' whatever was lying around. 'Thor,' 'Hulk,' whatever. Now, if the phone rings or when the phone rings, it's almost exclusively some project that has something to do with my ethnicity.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

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.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

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.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.

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.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

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

No stuffing is complete without chopped onion and celery - they're the building blocks. If you want to deepen the flavor, consider adding leeks, sage, and/or hardy greens.

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.

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies. Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night. The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again. When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart. It is your immortal inspiration.

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.

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

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

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.

Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.

Yeah, I started with 'The Onion,' that was my first job out of college.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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

If anybody ever called our number, it would be picked up in less than 2 rings with a friendly voice answering, CD Baby. From 7 am to 10 pm, there was always somebody to pick up a call in 2 rings. No voice mail system; no routing to different departments. We treated our customers like our best friends. You don't route your best friend's call to an automated system!

'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.

What we do every day onstage, there's lights, there's lots of other musicians, there's an audience, there's a microphone and mic stands - layers of the onion we have to kind of hide behind.

Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch.

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.

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.

I can remember tasting cheese and onion crisps when they first came on the market - they were the most amazing thing ever.

Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

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

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

I call you once...you never dialed back. Twice...you never dialed back. Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius. Saturday night, my phone rings... Saturday night, I won't answer. Saturday night, my phone rings again... Saturday night, I don't answer.