Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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

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.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not much of a cake person.

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.

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.

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

Dorothy Hamill

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

Rebecca Ferguson

I've got a running machine which I try and use, but it's just finding the time. Don't get me wrong, I love cake and ice cream; I'm the kind of girl that, if I want something, I'll have it.

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.

Harry Browne

I won't try to describe the various ways I tried to get the cake plate back to her without being confronted with a request for my judgment of her cake. Suffice to say that her well-intentioned favor interfered with my own plans.

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

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.

Dogen

When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

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.

Robert Holden

The Parks Department is listening. There is some good dialogue going on. Whatever happens is just icing on the cake for me. The big thing was getting the park.

We've had a good run. Now there's the cherry on the cake - and let's hope we can place it correctly.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

You Can never eat your cake and still have it

Ernst Toller

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Jimmy Smith

There's not a one of these cakes worth less than $100.

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.

Clarence Darrow

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.

David Frum

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.

Dawn French

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.

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.

Adriana Lima

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

William Shakespeare

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.