Cake Quotes - Page 12

• What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, People, Annoyed

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• The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Growth, Saving, Nine

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.10, 北戴河出版

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• What about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wish, Clue

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.183, Scholastic

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• Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Christmas, Couple, Cancer

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Baking, Lips, May

  William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.206

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• I want blood, guts, and chocolate cake.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Blood, Chocolate, Want

  Song: Teen Idle, Album: Electra Heart, 2012

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• Death smells like birthday cake.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Smell, Birthday Cake

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• I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Princess, Bread, Way

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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• We walked on the beach, fed blue corn ships to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy and all the other free samples my mom brought home from work. I guess I should explain the blue food. See, Gabe had once told my mom there was no such thing. They had this fight, which seemed like a really small thing at the time. But ever since, my mom went out of her way to eat blue. She baked blue birthday cakes. She mixed blueberry smoothies. She bought blue-corn tortilla chips and brought home blue candy from the shop.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Beach, Home

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• The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Should Have, News, Sitting

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• The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Thinking, Giving

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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• Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

  Christopher Moore

  White, Devil, My Friends

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

  Nella Larsen

  Trouble, Folks, Wells

  Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Art, Believe, Views

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• Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Real, Mind

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• Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Age, Cost, Half

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• If I'm playing a fat person, then I actually eat a lot of cakes and as much as I can. If I'm playing a person in shape, then I'll increase my intensity of boxing training. It's really dependent. It kind of allows me to take whatever specific character I want.

  Guy Burnet

  Character, Boxing, Training

  "Guy Burnet, Mortdecai Actor: On Boxing Every Day and Staying Balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Dream, Winning, Childhood

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

  Ice Cube

  Oscars, Icing, Ridiculous

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• I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

  Alison Sweeney

  Wine, Work Out, Trying

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• There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers too!

  Pom Klementieff

  Flower, Writing, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Angel, White

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

  Laurie Lee

  Rain, Butterfly, Air

  Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”

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• The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days.

  James Smith

  War, Doors, Firsts

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• Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

  Homaro Cantu

  Birthday, Mom, Memories

  "Let Your Taste Buds Take You Back in Time" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2013.

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