Cake Quotes - Page 15

• I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Wish, Rice Cakes, Rice

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• She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

  Brad Paisley

  Running, Hair, Jeans

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• British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.

  Martin McGuinness

  War, People, Collaboration

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• At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Princess, People

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1907). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Newly Translated Into English”

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• Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

  Marie Antoinette

  People, Wife, Bread

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Government, Available

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• Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'...
  Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'...
  Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'...
  Now take your lady to the world's fair (...)
  And do the 'rag time dance.'

  Scott Joplin

  Rags, World, Way

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• Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

  Georgette Heyer

  Witty, Fun, Husband

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

  David Chipperfield

  Engineering, Years, Design

  "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.

  Andre Rieu

  Sweet, Children, Fats

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

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• Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

  Sharon Olds

  Lying, Writing, Self

  "Get Over an Ex: Advice for After the Breakup" by Sharon Olds, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

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