Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice Cube

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

James Brown

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

James Boswell

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

Jeaniene Frost

I thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar?

Jeff Conaway

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

Christopher Jones

If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn't be worth eating!

Hayden Panettiere

I just celebrated my fourth birthday on the set, my fourth birthday cake. So it's been awhile and, you know, I grew up with these guys.

The gold medal was icing on the cake, ... but the cake was real rotten!

Louis Auchincloss

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

Helen Fisher

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

George Carlin

Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

Ray Charles

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Like this cake. It’s really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)

Miguel de Cervantes

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

John Newcombe

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

John Wagner

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

John Steinbeck

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

Gary Chapman

Love can be expressed and received in all five languages. However, if you don't speak a person's primary love language, that person will not feel loved, even though you may be speaking the other four. Once you are speaking his or her primary love language fluently, then you can sprinkle in the other four and they will be like icing on the cake.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

Meg Whitman

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

Paula Deen

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

John Updike

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

James Joyce

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Mark Teixeira

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

Marie Antoinette

Let them eat cake.

Marie Antoinette

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

Marie Antoinette

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

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.

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.

The Lions Club will sell their famous funnel cakes and they're doing hot dogs this year, too.

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