Icing Quotes

• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

  John Oates

  Happy Birthday, Song, Hair

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

  John Ashbery

  Years, Cake, Firsts

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

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• We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

  Meg Whitman

  Cake, Meg, Advertising

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• I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Moving, Cake, People

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• Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

  Julia Child

  Love Is, Cake, Romance

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• If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

  Brian Greene

  Cake, Theory, Turns

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• The icing on the cake is when other people enjoy your vision and support what you do.

  Cise Star

  Cake, People, Support

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

  Andie MacDowell

  Children, Feels Just, Accomplishment

  "Andie MacDowell: Taking Risks, Staying Curious, Agreeing To Disagree". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2011.

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• If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

  Aberjhani

  Life, Kindness, Cake

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

  Jewel

  Home, Thinking, Trying

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• We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Stay Strong, Winning

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• Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Bait, Swallowing

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• It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.

  Christopher Meloni

  Nice, Hard Work, Pride

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• Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

  Peter Guber

  Cake, Icing On The Cake, Stories

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2014

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• New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, New York, Powerful

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• Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

  Andy Partridge

  Rain, Blood, Land

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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, Cake

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

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• I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

  Boris Johnson

  Thinking, Facts, Noses

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• If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

  Jeff Conaway

  Cake, Stories, Helping

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• I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

  Michael Rooker

  Drama, School, Makeup

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

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• I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Book, Cake, Tvs

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• I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.

  Henry Rollins

  Eggs, Shapes, Exclusion

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• White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cake, White

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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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, Cake

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• Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

  Joshua Harris

  Love, Sweet, Commitment

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.33, Multnomah

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