A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Votes: 4
Benjamin FranklinI wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. Votes: 4
Mitch HedbergA bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. Votes: 4
Danielle SteelLet's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. Votes: 4
Audrey HepburnVegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. Votes: 3
Jim DavisI tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it. Votes: 3
Lesley BooneCelebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake? Votes: 1
Bethenny FrankelWe have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. Votes: 1
Meg WhitmanMy biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches. Votes: 0
Frank IeroArt without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag. Votes: 0
Laurie Halse AndersonWe came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverThe larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone. Votes: 0
Margaret ThatcherRemember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake! Votes: 0
Sarah Ban BreathnachScientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake. Votes: 0
Jim DavidsonThere's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy Votes: 0
John SteinbeckThe good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president. Votes: 0
Michele BachmannGaran snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake. Votes: 0
Kristin CashoreThe waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. Votes: 0
Herb CaenMy favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake. Votes: 0
Karlie KlossDelia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterI don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could've had a piece of cake tonight. Votes: 0
Gabriel IglesiasMy favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude. Votes: 0
Emeril Lagasse[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous. Votes: 0
Ice CubeTo buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy. Votes: 0
C. JoyBell C.I'm the frosting on America's cake, and tonight I'm willing to let you lick the bowl. Votes: 0
Stephen ColbertCall her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake." Votes: 0
Kresley ColeEveryone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake. Votes: 0
Tom BradyThey don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too. Votes: 0
Rob ThurmanWe must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaYes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake. Votes: 0
Sam LipsyteWe're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake. Votes: 0
Adam RiessYou can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser. Votes: 0
Dorie GreenspanAlways give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. Votes: 0
Ethel MermanWhat about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsWhite grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing. Votes: 0
Fran LebowitzLike this cake. It's really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonBut for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs. Votes: 0
Eva HerzigovaSo how did he look at me?" "Like it was his birthday and you were the cake. Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningYou have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast. Votes: 0
Mallika SarabhaiI eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake. Votes: 0
Denise Van OutenI like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world. Votes: 0
Demetri MartinIntimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick. Votes: 0
Joshua HarrisYou never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsThe icing on the cake is when other people enjoy your vision and support what you do. Votes: 0
Cise StarSilence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake. Votes: 0
Saru SinghalYou can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceI thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar? Votes: 0
Jeaniene FrostI was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable. Votes: 0
Steve IrwinEverything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. Votes: 0
John WagnerWhy should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake? Votes: 0
Joan RiversBefore she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes. Votes: 0
Anthony LiccioneMess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie. Votes: 0
Knute NelsonThe less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. Votes: 0
Reinhard BonnkeI'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest. Votes: 0
Craig BenzineIf life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness. Votes: 0
AberjhaniEvery job after the first job I got was icing on the cake. This is so much fun. Votes: 0
Katee SackhoffYou can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake. -L (from Death Note) Votes: 0
Tsugumi OhbaOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake. Votes: 0
Bette DavisI like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness. Votes: 0
Jhonen VasquezBeing from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes. Votes: 0
Mark TeixeiraBut there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. Votes: 0
Jonathan CoultonYou can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake. Votes: 0
Paula DeenI was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. Votes: 0
Andre RieuIf I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake. Votes: 0
Jeff ConawayIts a matter of time that the money I make become a financial cake that I could eat everyday. Votes: 0
Jonathan Anthony BurkettI think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap. Votes: 0
Veronica RothMen like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths. Votes: 0
Gelett BurgessA block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau Votes: 0
Karl PilkingtonIf the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. Votes: 0
Brian GreeneWhy should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker? Votes: 0
Joan RiversI am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl. Votes: 0
Jane AsherLife is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them. Votes: 0
Nancy MitfordThat cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate. Votes: 0
Loretta EllsworthLife for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. Votes: 0
Margaret AndersonThe real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too. Votes: 0
Arabella WeirIt's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing. Votes: 0
Ken JenningsMy mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans. Votes: 3 Janet Fitch
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. Votes: 7 Walter Lord
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. Votes: 1 Cilla Black
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. Votes: 5 Reinhard Bonnke
In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing. Votes: 1 Ron Ben-Israel
Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends. Votes: 1 Willie Geist
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. Votes: 1 George Eliot
I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.' Votes: 3 Steven Wright
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. Votes: 3 Janet Evanovich
Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much. Votes: 1 Tom Douglas
Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes. Votes: 3 Busy Philipps
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. Votes: 3 Meg Rosoff
When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn't realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds of rice and how the heat pops it like popcorn, the light bulb went off. This is popped. This isn't baked or fried. Votes: 1 Keith Belling
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. Votes: 4 Audrey Hepburn
When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket. Votes: 1 Jonathan Stroud
Why should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake? Votes: 3 Joan Rivers
Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in. Votes: 1 Dylan Lauren
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. Votes: 1 Vaughn Monroe
I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it. Votes: 1 Willie Geist
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. Votes: 1 Sara Blakely
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not. Votes: 3 Philip Seymour Hoffman
Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing." Votes: 3 T. Harv Eker
I've got a running machine which I try and use, but it's just finding the time. Don't get me wrong, I love cake and ice cream; I'm the kind of girl that, if I want something, I'll have it. Votes: 2 Rebecca Ferguson
Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake! Votes: 6 Peter Guber
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food. Votes: 3 Laurie Colwin
For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. Votes: 3 Yotam Ottolenghi
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. Votes: 3 Alfred Hitchcock
I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us. Votes: 3 Kami Garcia
My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. Votes: 3 Molly Sims