Quotes by Cake I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you. Ann Richards cake life-is-like children I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes. Anna Chancellor cake recipes people I am a woman on her way to eat cake. Anna Funder cake way You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat. Anna Quindlen rising cake fall What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant. Anna Sui cake people looks 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. Anne Lamott cake world needs Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life. Antoinette Bosco cake asking giving Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake. Antony Gormley cake believe art The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too. Arabella Weir cake likes real You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake. Arnold Lobel frogs cake home Zerts' are what I call desserts. 'Trée-trées' are entrées. I call sandwiches 'sammies,' 'sandoozles,' or 'Adam Sandlers.' Air conditioners are 'cool blasterz' with a 'z' - I don't know where that came from. I call cakes 'big ol' cookies.' I call noodles 'long-ass rice.' Fried chicken is 'fry-fry chicky-chick.' Chicken parm is 'chicky-chicky-parm-parm.' Chicken cacciatore? 'Chicky-cacc.' I call eggs 'pre-birds,' or 'future birds.' Root beer is 'super water.' Tortillas are 'bean blankets.' And I call forks 'food rakes.' Aziz Ansari cake air beer You can't say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal. Aziz Ansari cereal cake breakfast I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars. Barack Obama cake cutting war Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners. Barbara Kingsolver cake errors eye We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. Barbara Kingsolver bethlehem georgia cake Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity, members of the ICF, my own National Olympic Committee, friends and athletes from the Slalom Community. When I got the wild card, it was the cherry on the cake that I could not have imagined. It was much more than I expected for myself. Benjamin Boukpeti cake appreciate athlete A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Benjamin Franklin cake political sarcastic St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake. Bertrand Russell cake marriage views Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake? Bethenny Frankel celebration cake One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake. Bette Davis candle cake realizing «1234567891011»