Onions Quotations

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

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.

In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

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.

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

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

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.

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

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.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

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

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in everything.

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.

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

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.

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

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

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.

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

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

Season the inside and the outside of the turkey real good with salt and pepper; this will give the turkey some flavor. Then, cut up some onions and one stalk of celery and place it inside the turkey.

My grandmothers are full of memories,Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, With veins rolling roughly over quick hands, They have many clean words to say, My grandmothers were strong.

Caramelized onions are rich and sweet. They don't have the bite that raw onions have.

Caramelized onions add a complex sweetness to any dish and work especially well with the pork in this sausage. My mother made sausage with marjoram on holidays, so this is a special flavor for me. This isn't necessarily a classic sausage flavor combination, but it's one that really works.

Caramelized onions add a complex sweetness to any dish - and work especially well with the pork in this sausage. My mother made sausage with marjoram on holidays, so this is a special flavor for me. This isn't necessarily a classic sausage flavor combination, but it's one that really works.

Caramelized onions add a complex sweetness to any dish -- and work especially well with the pork in this sausage. My mother made sausage with marjoram on holidays, so this is a special flavor for me. This isn't necessarily a classic sausage flavor combination, but it's one that really works.

We try to give a taste of all different flavors. Because when you have a burrito, you don't want just meat -- you want onions and peppers too!

There are so many types of onions out there, it's absolutely unreal,

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

We need to be going wide open this time of year to get these onions out of the field and we have nobody working today. We've got a short time to get these onions out of the field. Losing a day in this part of the season causes a tremendous amount of problems.

The situation has turned worse as we cannot even properly store the onions for frequent load-shedding.

After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.

There were jokes because of all those people in the pits with their onions and canisters of beer who could chuck them at you.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

I have to say I love Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant. It's gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese.

In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

You might be a redneck if you grow Vidalia onions, rather than considering them a gourmet item.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

...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.

I assured them that I was HIM and proceeded to order a hamburger as Professor Dumbledore: 'I think I'd rather like a cheeseburger -- well done, with onions on the side,' ... The girls were amazed.

It’s funny. I don’t like onions but I like onion rings. What’s up with that?

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

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

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

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

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

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

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.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

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!

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

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

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

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.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

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

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

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

Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions.

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

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

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

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

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

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.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

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.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

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

That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me.

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

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.