Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

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

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.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not much of a cake person.

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.

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

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.

Dave Cook

Winning the title would be the icing on the cake for Cody and David. I've never met two kids who hated losing so much.

Carlo Ancelotti

We can say we have the cake and now we're just missing the cherry on top. We're closer (to the final) than PSV, but we'll have to prepare very well for the return leg, seeing how tough they were.

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.

Jane Asher

I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

Jane Asher

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

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.

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

Eddie Izzard

Cake and tea or death?

Benjamin Franklin

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

Demetri Martin

I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.

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.

Daniel Handler

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

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.

Laurie Colwin

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

Denise Van Outen

I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.

Buddy Valastro

You can't arrest me. I'm the Cake Boss,

Charles M. Schulz

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...

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

We've been able to have our cake and eat it too -- satisfy our demand for goods and services and at lower prices,

Unless (energy) prices collapse, earnings in 2006 will make 2005 look like a cake walk.

Bill Murray

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.