Cake Quotes - Page 23

• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Wife

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• Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Healthy, Meat

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• There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Food, Wine

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

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• If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream -- all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Oil, Pie

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

  Jimmy Carr

  Successful, Thinking, Icing

  "Stand up and be counted, comedians" by Charlotte Cripps, The Independent, January 31, 2007.

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• On the good ship Lollipop Its a sweet trip To the candy shop Where bon-bon's play, On the sunny beach Of peppermint bay Lemonade stands, Everywhere Crackerjack bands, Fill the air, And there you are, Happy landings on a chocolate bar. See the sugar bowl Do a tootsie roll In a big bad devils food cake, If you eat too much, Oh, oh, You'll awake, With a tummy ache.

  Shirley Temple

  Sweet, Beach, Air

  Song: On The Good Ship Lollipop

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• If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.

  Harold Town

  Art, Creativity, Doubt

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Comfort, Caviar, Dinner

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.

  Pia Zadora

  Girl, Divorce, Eye

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Coffee, Food, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”

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• In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

  Clarence Darrow

  Choices, Way, Judgment

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

  Bette Davis

  Realizing, Candle, Getting Old

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• Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Being A Mother, Scolded

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• 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

  Fall, Rising, Youth

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.3, Random House

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• I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

  Amanda Righetti

  Night, Watches, Aces

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• The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

  Heath Ledger

  Cousin, Memories, Heart

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• two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Two, Hypocrisy, Chocolate

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• Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

  Julia Child

  Children, Growing Up, Revenge

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• Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

  Margaret Deland

  People, Cooking, Lawyer

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• You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Would Be, Four, Olympics

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• I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Humanity, Littles

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

  Laura E. Richards

  Joy, Sorrow, May

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• It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Differences, Membership, Groups

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

  Kyo Maclear

  Beautiful, Flower, Perfect

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