Wambaugh Onion Quotes

#1. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Euripides

#2. Dying
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Robert Penn Warren

#3. No brute ever does a cruel thing - that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense.

Mark Twain

#4. The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. I'm frightend. Of us. I want to go home. O God I to go home." "It's was an accident," said Piggy stubbornly,"and that's that." He touched Ralph's bare shoulder and Ralph shuddered at the human contact.

William Golding

#6. You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

Federico Fellini

#7. Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

Steve Allen

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

Joseph Wambaugh

#9. All evening long, real snow would fall from the ceiling to glitter on the lashes of dancing girls and ardent boys, but Neve and the Dreamer didn't linger.
They had other things to do: *all* of them. All the things, dreamed and undreamed, in the depth and breadth of the whole spinning world.

Laini Taylor

#10. 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

#11. Rocco drove up the West Side until they reached the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Richard Price

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

Joseph Wambaugh

#13. It made sense to Abdul that in a polyglot city, people would sort themselves as he sorted his garbage, like with like.

Katherine Boo

#14. I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

Auliq Ice

#16. My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.

Anne Wojcicki