Cake Quotes - Page 14

• My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

  Sara Blakely

  Sweet, Husband, Night

  "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Creativity, Details, Attention

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• When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

  Julia Child

  Real, Eggs, France

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

  Cat Deeley

  Birthday, Hate, Party

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• The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

  Duff Goldman

  Kids, Eye, Magic

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• I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Stars, Cutting, Night

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• I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Cia Agents

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• Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior. The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.

  Jeff Hardy

  Wrestling, Warrior, Personality

  Source: www.ign.com

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• If I'm happy with the song and it's a hit song or not, for the rest of my life, I can hang my hat on knowing I did the best I could, and I'll enjoy getting out there and doing it. That's all that really matters for me. The icing on the cake is people actually enjoy it and sing it back to you. That's when you know that you've done something great.

  Jake Owen

  Song, Knowing, People

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• I'm not much of a cake person.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Persons

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• I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

  Scott Adams

  Love, Valentines Day, Food

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• Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

  Aesop

  Peace, Fear, Food

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

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• He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

  Michael Pollan

  Healing, Chocolate, Guilt

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.61, Penguin

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• How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

  Rita Rudner

  Food, Eggs, Water

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• Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.

  Alice Sebold

  Quilts, Humble, Hands

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

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• While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.

  Victor Hugo

  Friday, Tuesday, Connections

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1116, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake. You expect that when your teammates are doing their jobs, so you got to compartmentalize and do your job.

  Tom Brady

  Jobs, Pieces, Teammate

  "Tom Brady on pressure, Gisele and Trump". Interview with John Carucci, www.businessinsider.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

  T. S. Eliot

  Greatness, Ice, Tea

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 84 (1917)

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• The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tree, Cabins, Forests

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• A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Essentials, Ingredients

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• I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Song, Moving

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

  Rachael Ray

  Birthday, Mother, Three

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• The scene with Danny [McBride] and the cake and all of that [in the Pineapple Express], most of that is improvised, I would say. But you would never know, to me anyway, and that's what is always amazing.

  Seth Rogen

  Pineapples, Scene, Knows

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• 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

  People, Looks, Icing

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• Why have a cake if I can't eat it?

  Vanna Bonta

  Ifs, I Can

  "Rewards of passion, sheer poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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