Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Aziz Ansari

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

Daniel Handler

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

Aaron Paul

Love love and cherish life. Also, just eat the cake.

The question is, can they have their cake and eat it too?

Anna Sui

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

Amy Poehler

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

Adriana Lima

I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole.

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

But what really took the cake was a kid who was throwing a fit, cussing and everything because the boom-box he looted didn't come with batteries. I can't take it anymore. We're leaving.

The only thing that matters tonight, and I mean this sincerely, is that we just played a great defensive effort for 40 minutes. It's a great win for that reason. The icing on the cake is 100.

Anne Lamott

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

Anna Chancellor

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

Amelia Earhart

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

D. H. Lawrence

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

Dorothy Hamill

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

Delia Smith

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not much of a cake person.

Claes Oldenburg

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

Ron Ben-Israel

I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers.

My dad thought all wedding cakes should be white. Times have changed.

Frederick Jones

No one who was present at the meeting remembers yellow cake (uranium) being discussed nor any documents being passed.

Malaika Arora Khan

Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.

People will understand that getting a piece of the cake is better than not getting any cake at all.

We had a white cake with a pink Canadian maple leaf in the middle of the cake.

Nate McMillan

I think he's worked hard, but he needs to play. The thing is, that's not a league where you just go and it's a cake walk. For him, there's going to be guys down there challenging him because he's up here, he has a position, and they want to come up here.

Eileen collins

It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.

Eddie Izzard

Tea and cake or death...students with beards 'tea and cake or death, tea and cake or death...little red cookbook, little red cookbook.'

Steve Aoki

When I'm at a show, I'm there to have fun. Let's just not care for a moment. So this cake in your face is to make you lose your mind. And it's not about caring about whatever you are wearing and caring what other people are thinking about you. Out of the context, I'm trying to develop something else.

When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.