Mark Billingham

As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.

English Novelist

Mara Brock Akil

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

American Writer

Andy Grammer

The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

American Musician

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

American Journalist

James Huneker

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

Will Rogers

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

American Actor

Carl Sandburg

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

American Poet

Mark Lawrenson

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

English Footballer

Liam Cunningham

I love onions. I cook with them all the time.

Irish Actor

Phil Taylor

I love liver and onions or a roast dinner.

British Athlete

Onions are foundational in cooking, often starting many recipes.

Culinary Staple

Onions add depth to dishes and are used raw or cooked.

Flavor Enhancement

Cutting onions can cause tears due to released chemicals.

Emotional Response

Used metaphorically, onions represent complexity or hidden truths.

Metaphoric Layers

Peeling an onion is commonly used to describe revealing more information.

Discovering Details

It suggests a process of uncovering layers to reach the core idea.

Unwrap Complexity

Onion, in computing, is associated with keeping internet activity private.

Online Anonymity

Onion metaphor in tech implies multiple layers of encryption.

Layered Security

Often associated with Tor, onion helps avoid online tracking.

Tor Network Use

 doesn't always equal complicated. So for me, a well-crafted baguette, fresh out of the oven, is complex, but a curry onion green olive poppy cheese bread is complicated. I'm an ecologist, and I study complexity. I love complexity. And I study that in the natural world, the interconnectedness of species.

Eric Berlow: Simplifying...

 You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. Then you harvest the seeds --

6 ways mushrooms can...

 and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion. And we keep doing that, and build more powerful machines, accelerators for particles. We look deeper and deeper into the structure of particles,

Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty...

 the way you unravel the peels of an onion. So peel by peel, you take away the layers of the onion to get at some fundamental kernel of truth. I don't think that's the way it works either. Another one, a kind of popular one, is the iceberg idea, that we only see the tip of the iceberg but underneath

Stuart Firestein: The...

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 our most important beverage on this planet what a lot of people always say what are so many in no way it has to be from the onion or something like this this cannot be real fascinated you are a water sommelier correct and you believe

He Tastes Water Like...

 not to share such a significant part of my life. But I also knew that I'd missed my opportunity, and as Grandma always used to say, "Ah, well, it's all part of the soup. Too late to take the onions out now."

Three ideas. Three...

 A pungent blend of onions, cheese, and cat urine with hints of is that…wet goat? Most of us don’t need more than one whiff to identify that generally unpleasant, characteristic smell we call body odor.

What causes body odor? -...

 the horses in the castle you find that onion collage they are very adapted to this region into this weather and to this type of life or the Guardian the horse is the most important collect my

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 what everyone else in the world calls him and little bit of pattern and then it has to be in tomato a relish so so many quite a spicy tomato relish with onions and you put that on on the