37 Quotes About Onions

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

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  • Author Nate Silver
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    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.

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  • Author Carrie Underwood
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    Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in everything.

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  • Author Catherynne M. Valente
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    You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

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  • Author Billy West
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    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.

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  • Author Joseph Wambaugh
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    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.

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