Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

James Huneker Quote: 'Life is like an onion: you ...'

Related Quotes

lago antorno three zinnen dolomites
Layer by layer art strips life bare.


Robert Musil
Tags: Life Art Bare
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
Penelope Cruz
Tags: You Who Your
ramsau hintersee alpine nature
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.


Christopher Hampton
Tags: Just Day Myself
tofana dolomites italy mountains
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.


Simon Sinek
Tags: Funny You Life
Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
Bridget Fonda
Tags: People Who Most
park braunschweig nature germany
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.


Edward Norton
Tags: You Like More
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
George Ayittey
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
Brigitte Bardot
Tags: You Me Life
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
Lynn Redgrave
Tags: Future Death You
cir dolomites alm nature rock
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.


Werner Herzog
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
Rita Dove
Tags: Amazing Me Life
I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.
Marc Jacobs
Tags: Work Like Just
rocky coast wave smashing sea
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.


Claude Pepper
Tags: You Like Life
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
Raymond Chandler
Tags: You Like Love
I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.
Gurinder Chadha
I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.
Steven Gaines
Tags: How He Then
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
Ted Dekker
Tags: You Really Know
In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
Christopher Guest
Tags: Good Space People
Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
Ken Burns
Tags: You Like Know
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy
Tags: You Like More