Cake famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.
-- Adam Riess -
I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!
-- Adriana Lima -
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
-- Aimee Bender -
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.
-- Alison Sweeney -
Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.
-- Amanda Hesser -
I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.
-- Amanda Righetti -
No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
-- Andre Rieu -
Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.
-- Andrew Davidson -
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
-- Anna Chancellor -
You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.
-- Anna Quindlen -
What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.
-- Anna Sui -
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
-- Antoinette Bosco -
The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
-- Arabella Weir -
You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.
-- Arnold Lobel -
Your favorite kind of cake can't be birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.
-- Aziz Ansari -
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity, members of the ICF, my own National Olympic Committee, friends and athletes from the Slalom Community. When I got the wild card, it was the cherry on the cake that I could not have imagined. It was much more than I expected for myself.
-- Benjamin Boukpeti -
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?
-- Bethenny Frankel -
All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake
-- Beverly Cleary -
The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.
-- Bill Condon -
Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.
-- Bill Rodgers -
I want you to make u and go halfzies on this cake. K? But. . . I want a piece too, so i guess we'll have to go thirdzies. . . Awwww, we're not going to be able to split the strawberry on top though. What should we do? Maybe I should just take it after all strawberries are my favorite. . . oh! I forgot to ask Hiku-chan, Kau-chan do you like strawberries? -Hunny
-- Bisco Hatori -
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
-- Boris Johnson -
She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.
-- Brad Paisley -
Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.
-- Brand Blanshard -
Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
-- Brenda Shaughnessy -
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
-- Brother Lawrence -
Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
-- Busy Philipps -
My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
I'm not going to work for the sake of working. I'll work, if I'm extraordinarily lucky enough to continue having the same opportunities, but it will be based on whatever is there. If there's nothing around, then I'll go home and make carrot cake for awhile.
-- Carey Mulligan -
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
-- Caroline Knapp -
You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.
-- Carolyn Mackler -
We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
-- Casey Stengel -
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code...
-- Charles M. Schulz -
Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.
-- Charlotte Gray -
Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.
-- Chetan Bhagat -
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
-- Clarence Darrow -
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
-- Cliff Martinez -
Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.
-- Colin Quinn -
I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.
-- Craig Benzine -
Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.
-- Craig Kilborn -
Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.
-- Dale Spender -
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.
-- Daniel Handler -
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
-- Danielle Steel -
Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.
-- Darynda Jones -
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
-- Dave Barry -
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.
-- David Chipperfield -
So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
-- David Frum -
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
-- David Nicholls -
There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the cake mixes and the detergents, and the margarines… The manufacturer who dedicates his advertising to building the most sharply defined personality for his brand will get the largest share of the market at the highest profit.
-- David Ogilvy -
Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.
-- David Shannon -
We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, Youd better hurry up, theyre going like hot cakes, and theyre going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.
-- David Stern -
My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
-- David Ulevitch -
In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.
-- David Walliams -
It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
-- Dawn French -
Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
-- Dean Koontz -
A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
-- Delia Smith -
I like birthdays because we celebrate life with cakes. It's so cool. Sometimes when I see a baby, I'm like that much more cake in the world. But then when someone dies, I'm like the cake streak is over...
-- Demetri Martin -
I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.
-- Denise Van Outen -
Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake
-- Derren Brown -
For me, almost always, the answer was cake.
-- Diana Abu-Jaber -
Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think?
-- Donita K. Paul -
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.
-- Duff Goldman -
If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.
-- Duff Goldman -
Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.
-- Dylan Lauren -
Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.
-- Dylan Moran -
Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.
-- E. Lockhart -
Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,†she said. “Don’t you want it?†“Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.†“Why?†Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?†“Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it,†I said. “So it’s really amazing cake,†said Meghan. “And I want you to have it.
-- E. Lockhart -
Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.
-- Edward Taylor -
[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.
-- Elspeth Huxley -
I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.
-- Emily Carr -
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
-- Emma Donoghue -
Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.
-- Erik Naggum -
The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.
-- Euell Gibbons -
I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.
-- Eva Green -
But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.
-- Eva Herzigova -
The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.
-- Eva Ibbotson -
My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.
-- Frank Iero -
Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.
-- Fred Dibnah -
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
-- Fred Saberhagen -
A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
I don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could've had a piece of cake tonight.
-- Gabriel Iglesias -
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
-- Gale Anne Hurd
