Onion Field Quotes

#1. It's always the end for now, and in real life, the only full stop is on the obituary page.

Stephen King

#2. Aye," she said, "and hands strong enough to twist a man's head off his shoulders, if he takes a mind to.

George R R Martin

#3. Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.

Scout Niblett

#4. I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

Jeffrey Lewis

#5. Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Assia Djebar

#6. In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Vladimir Putin

#7. There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Edward Abbey

#8. There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse.

Aleksandra Layland

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

Joseph Wambaugh

#10. I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

Lech Walesa

#11. I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar stairs with vexatious phlegm.

Emily Bronte

#13. What if we started every decision by asking some simple questions: What are we giving up by making this choice? What else could we do with the same time and money?

Chip Heath

#14. 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

#15. Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

Rachel Roy

#16. It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.

Margaret Cho

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

Joseph Wambaugh

#18. Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

John Cheever