Cake Quotes - Page 11

• Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Heart, Cost

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

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• Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

  Veronica Roth

  Party, Breathing, Peter

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• Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Interviews, Process, Admission

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.70, Penguin

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• I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Horse, Giving, Amber

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.264, Penguin

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• 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

  Eye, Errors, People

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• The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.

  Bill Condon

  Real, Dark, Family And Friends

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• 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

  James Patterson

  Waiting, Sitting, Pieces

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• I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, “Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.

  Mindy Kaling

  Stress, Thinking, Details

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• Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Envy

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• Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

  Gerald Durrell

  Tea, Rising, Melting

  Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

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• A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

  Klaus Nomi

  Makeup, Men, Icing

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• On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

  Eric Carle

  Night, Pie, Ice Cream

  Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.19, Penguin

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• Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

  Nalini Singh

  Air, Blue, Wings

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.63, Penguin

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• It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Sweet, Light, Hair

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.24, Bantam

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• You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in.

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Giants, Arena

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• The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Sweet, Spoons, Vanilla

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• So how did he look at me?" "Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Looks, Look At Me

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.730, Dell

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• By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Perfect, Example

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• He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dozen, Teeth, Frowning

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.617, Dell

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• It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.730, Dell

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• Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

  Kristin Cashore

  Torture, Indigestion, Knows

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.175, Penguin

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• The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

  Theodore Gordon

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

  Leslie Jamison

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.100, Granta Books

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• I was fortunate to sell at a time of great sea change in the romance genre; suddenly heroines were allowed to be portrayed as having rich, fulfilling lives. They didn't need a man for security or self-esteem, but having that one very special man in their lives proved the icing on the cake.

  JoAnn Ross

  Self Esteem, Men, Sea

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• I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

  Will Self

  Art, Apology, Television

  2001 Feeding Frenzy.

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