Quotes About Peeling An Onion

#1. I am thinking of the onion again ... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

Erica Jong

#2. 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

#3. It occurred to him to say the viddui, the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You, who has bestowed me with many blessings. May my death atone for all I have done ... and may I shelter in the shadow of Your wings in the World to Come.

Helene Wecker

#4. The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

Edward Blishen

#5. Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

Euripides

#6. If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

Lemony Snicket

#7. Because you're bipolar.

Whitney G.

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

Juliette Binoche

#9. As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

Frederick Lenz

#10. My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Dalai Lama

#11. I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.

Jennifer Aniston

#12. He was no longer strictly a man, if he had ever been one. He was like an onion, slowly peeling away one layer at a time, only it was the trappings of humanity that seemed to be peeling away: organized reflection, memory, possibly even free will ... if there ever had been such a thing.

Stephen King

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

Ray Bradbury

#14. Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer.

Dallas Campbell

#15. 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

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

Arthur Golden

#17. I think the U.S. economy wants to be strong. It wants to be.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#18. The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

Harry Lennix

#19. 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

#20. I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

Queen Latifah

#21. 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

#22. Like handling an onion, peeling off the "husk" of our lives, sometimes makes us cry.

Nina Guilbeau