Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Roberts

He wants to make the tax cuts permanent that reduces income to the government while we're in war which increases expenses.. I don't know how you can have your cake and eat it to.

Kevin Rogers

Last year, I think it was the icing on the cake just to get to NTN. This year the expectations are higher.

Richard Paul Evans

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

Ron Ben-Israel

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

Ron Ben-Israel

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

Ray Brown

I had to have two cakes because I had so many candles. That really hit hard.

Louis Auchincloss

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.

Luke Clausen

This is like winning a grand slam. It's cool, like icing on top of the cake to win the Classic and winning those records.

Mr. T

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Scott Prince

This is just the icing on the cake.

Jeff Horner

This is it. Hopefully, we can put the icing on the cake.

Sasha Cohen

It's wonderful. It means so much to skate well, and then be rewarded on top of that is icing on the cake.

Doris Roberts

Wow, this is the icing on the cake.

Eric Boyle

We've had such a tremendous year and we want to put some icing on that cake.

Joe Macri

We had the recipe that we needed to win tonight. We just didn't put the icing on the top.

Keith Klestinski

That was unbelievable. For us to win those sprint relays was really special. To set records was the icing on the cake.

Lee Womack

I thought it would be nice if I got one or two. Everything after that was just icing on the cake.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Mark Pellegrino

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Ruth Glick

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Charlie Mars

All of a sudden, it's like we're Wal-Mart. We don't have the structure to do this.

Bob Ney

It taught us that we didn't have a cohesive structure in place,

Kris Jenkins

They've let me know I have a support structure here and anything I need to get I can get.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Clifford Geertz

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical