Onion Quotes

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

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.

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

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

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

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

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.

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.

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.