78 quotes found
“Photographing a cake can be art.”
“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”
“Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.”
“I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.”
“She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”
“Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”
“If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
“What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed."Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?"I look at her from th...”
“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”
“It seems there are some problems even Prosecco and cake can't make better.”
“Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex . . . a lot. But it's never going to repla...”
“Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?”
“It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.”
“But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.”
“foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon.”
“Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.”
“Jamie leaned over. “And your perfect world?”“Mmm,” Helen smiled. “Perfect is complicated. Hard to explain.”“Give it a shot,” I prodded her.“It’s… beautiful is the best word to describe it,” she sai...”
“As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the fl...”