Cake Quotes - Page 17

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  Indra Nooyi

  Responsibility, Worry, President

  "No Fear of Failure: Real Stories of How Leaders Deal With Risk and Change". Book by Gary Burnison, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

  Charlotte Gray

  Garden, Skills, Words Of Wisdom

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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Years, Sheep, Mad

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Scotch, Ice Cream

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• If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, School, Editors

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Live By, Dies

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• The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Glasses, Safety

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• I was baking cakes for a gourmet shop and put two chocolate cakes in oven to bake and when I opened the oven an hour later, they were raw - the oven wasn't working. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't borrow an oven and I didn't want to waste the batter, so I came up with the idea of steaming them and they came out great! Thick and fudgy, like pudding cake. That happy accident was always in the back of mind.

  Michele Scicolone

  Ideas, Two, Chocolate

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Wedding, Taste, Reason Why

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• I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. “I was at my desk, and Mickey told me I had to come out to take a look,” Morelli said. “It’s floor,” I told him. “I can see that. If we add some milk and eggs, we can turn you into a cake.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eggs, Waiting, Add

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• She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

  David Nicholls

  Husband, Fans, Faces

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• The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

  John Ashbery

  Years, Firsts, Icing

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.16, Ardent Media

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• 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

  Giving, Asking, Substance

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• Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Rivers, Credit, Dinner

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.7, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  John Wagner

  Ice Cream, Age, Hips

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• Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks,
  I love you like a fat kid love cake.

  Curtis Jackson

  Sex, Love You, Kids

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• Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.

  J. K. Rowling

  Coffee, Home, Dust

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• Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

  William Rathje

  Book, Phoenix, Phones

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• If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

  Emma Donoghue

  Made, Ifs

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

  Derren Brown

  Tea, Reason

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• Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

  Nancy Mitford

  Dull, Sometimes, Life Is

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.182, Vintage

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• The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake?" Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel.

  Kim Harrison

  Als, Way, Bigs

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• The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Vegetables, Chocolate

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, p.33, Pottermore

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• I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Ninety Nine, Two, Doe

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• Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game.

  Jay Electronica

  Kissing, Games, Jail

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