Cake Quotes

When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

~ Caitlin Moran

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Bob Hope

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

Let them eat cake.

~ Marie Antoinette

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

~ George Harrison

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

~ Mitch Hedberg

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

~ Jerry Seinfeld

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

~ Boris Johnson

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

~ Jimmy Fallon

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

~ Lisa Loeb

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

~ Navjot Singh Sidhu

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

~ Mary Berry

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

~ Walter Lord

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.

~ Willie Geist

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

~ Catherine Bell

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.

~ Gloria Stuart

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

~ Ron Ben-Israel

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

~ David Ulevitch

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

~ Amanda Marshall

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

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

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

~ Mary Mccarthy

Photographing a cake can be art.

~ Irving Penn

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

~ Ludwig Erhard

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

~ Richard Simmons

I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days.

~ Holly Hunter

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.

~ Clive Barker

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

~ Ron Ben-Israel

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

~ Ron Ben-Israel

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

~ Margot Asquith