Behinds Quote by Anonymous

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

— Anonymous

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn…

— Karen Abbott

Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But…

— Paul Buchheit

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

— Janet Fitch

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and…

— Tina St. John

“Feathers!" spluttered Sargatanas. "Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a…

— George Pendle

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels…

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

— Holly Black

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show…

— Daniel Boulud

A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then.…

— Larry Moss

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry…

— A. J. Liebling

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers,…

— Marian Keyes

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

— Juliette Binoche