Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shel Silverstein

A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

Tao Lin

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

Lars von Trier

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

Langston Hughes

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

Linda Howard

...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.

Lil Wayne

Gotta get it, even if it's in the worse way. Got cake like everyday my birthday.

Phyllis McGinley

Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

Phyllis Diller

get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.

Kobe Bryant

People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.

Lenny Bruce

Koolaid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes - goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish - very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them.

Lady Gaga

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Karl Pilkington

Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.

Kami Garcia

I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us.

John Heywood

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.

Gail Carriger

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Maggie Stiefvater

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

Haruki Murakami

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

James Patterson

SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers? Those are things I'm not good at. Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something? Piece o'cake

Haruki Murakami

All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

Harlan Coben

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

John Maynard Keynes

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

Beverly Cleary

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

Tom Evans

I usually make the Derby cake and they use a lot of my recipes for the other food we serve, but somebody else makes them now. I used to cook more but after my health declined, I had to cut back.

You never go into a game expecting a cake walk. I thought we played well enough to win. But again, the power play didn't come through in the first period on the 5-on-3. Then, they get that power play goal and we're playing catch-up.

You never get the golden goose like you do with this. Very, very rarely do people have their cake and get to eat it too.

Barbara Kingsolver

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Aziz Ansari

Your favorite kind of cake can't be birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

Laurie Colwin

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

Busy Philipps

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.

Jamie Oliver

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

Dean Koontz

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

Dean Koontz

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.