Quotes About Peeling

I like to peel oranges.

Primero, escobille las frutas bajo el chorro de agua tal como lo hizo en el método anterior. Luego, ponga las tunas en agua hirviendo y blanquee por 10 segundos. Retire del agua con pinzas. Una vez que se ha calentado en forma rápida la fruta, sus espinas son menos irritantes, y es más fácil pelarla. Blanquee y enfríe sólo seis tunas por vez, porque cuando la fruta se enfría las espinas vuelven a pinchar. La cáscara se bota.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

instead of finishing up, he'd gone around to the south side and begun to scrape, an activity more in harmony with his mood. It felt far more satisfying to be peeling something away creating ugliness before restoring beauty.

he went to the kitchen to get a banana; after each mouthful he pulled back a fraction the four or five strips of striped skin, faded petals, which covered his fist as it clenched the base of the fruit; carefully he detached the friable, cardboard-flavoured filaments that run down its surface like meridian lines, in a word peeling his banana the way the anthropoid will forever peel his. He threw one of the filaments into the fly cage..

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

The truth I'm trying to convey is not a startling one, it is simply a peeling away of affectation. I use whatever gift I have to get behind the facade.

There's a poem about onions," she said. "It's about how memory is like an onion—it makes you cry.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

Q: Why did the orange go to the hospital? A: It wasn't peeling well.

This was what we Japanese called the "onion life"—peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

given up offering to help, as whatever she had done—peeling, chopping, frying—had

While Martha's skins fell off her tomatoes like a silk slip off a supermodel, our skins got caught in the deep folds and stuck stubbornly. It was like trying to peel leather pants off of a sweaty, hairy, fat guy.

It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

Yes, life has many onions.

Life is an onion and one peels it crying.

You cut up a piece of fruit, peel it, put it on a dish, and top it with something fun, and it feels like a real snack, instead of just walking down the street while peeling an orange and eating it: you're not actually taking a minute to enjoy that snack.

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.

I find the easiest way to peel ginger is to start with a vegetable peeler to remove the majority of the skin. I then switch to a spoon, which is good for scraping away any remaining skin trapped within the grooves and nooks of the knob.

It was a very nice lobby, if you like old terrazzo floors and golden wallpaper, peeling slightly at the edges. A bored clerk at the desk was tapping at an iPad. He didn't even look up as we went past to the elevators, and I found to my delight that one of them was right there on the ground floor, waiting for us.

The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left - at least none worth speaking of.