Cake Quotes

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I still love red velvet cake.

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

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

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

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.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

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.

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.

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.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

I'm not much of a cake person.