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the very best plans were made like an onion, with layer upon layer protecting the heart. — S.J.A. Turney

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

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

Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core. — Afnan Ahmad Mia

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Dany nibbled at an onion and reflected ruefully on the faithlessness of men. — George R R Martin

I see you have Sgiach placed in the middle," Thanatos said.
"Yeah, along with onion rings, Hostess Ding Dongs, and my name," Aphrodite said. — Kristin Cast

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

A rose by any other name
Would never, never smell the same
And cunning is the nose that knows
An onion that's been called a rose. — Wendell Johnson

The laws of physics could be like an onion, with new laws becoming operational as we probe new scales. We simply don't know! — Richard Feynman

looking for the pi in my onion — Natasha Tsakos

The onion is the truffle of the poor. — Robert J. Courtine

A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what size of the onion, the dish or the woman — Terry Pratchett

This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion ... You're a natural-born onion peeler
the best that ever was. — John Verdon

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

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

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part. — Tamar Myers

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

Good-will never added an onion to the soup, and is good for nothing but a passport to paradise. — Victor Hugo

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. — William Shakespeare

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. — Robert Orben

If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your car, (about the BMW X3). — Jeremy Clarkson

It is the onion, memory, that makes me cry, he said. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

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

Like handling an onion, peeling off the "husk" of our lives, sometimes makes us cry. — Nina Guilbeau

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

Take care to chop the onion fine. — Laura Esquivel

Everything is relative' said the cosmic onion. 'Well, you're no relative of mine', said Dougal, huffily. - The Magic Roundabout — Linda Watson

The demon is crouched in the corner, between the Cheetos and the onion dip. It's — Rachel A. Marks

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. — Karl Pilkington

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

Her face may be as smooth as an onion; but the beauty of a woman is in the spirit she possesses and in the principles of righteousness she cherishes. — Heber C. Kimball

The smell coming off my flesh had gone from simple stinkiness to something weird and almost appetizing, close to sour-cream-and-onion potato chips. — Eliot Schrefer

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

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

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

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

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

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