Layer Cake Quotes

#1. We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

Laura E. Richards

#2. Sometimes I'll get ideas in the middle of the night. Sometimes at 3 in the morning I'll get up, and I have a notebook by my bed and have to write it down. I'll dream an idea. Sometimes I see an image online, and I think, 'OK, let's make that a three-layer cake!'

Rosanna Pansino

#3. You're born, you take shit

get out in the world, you take more shit

climb a little higher, take less shit.

till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.

Welcome to the layer cake, son.

J.J. Connolly

#4. A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it.

Peter Kreeft

#5. I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

Ann Richards

#6. This, said Mother, as she handed him a piece of dry, tasteless matzoh, is the bread of our affliction. Where, young Kugel wondered, is the seven-layer cake of our salvation? Where is the muffin of our mirth? Where is our no-longer-reduced-to-jelly doughnut?

Shalom Auslander

#7. When you have made it in life, you must give back to those who made you.

Aliko Dangote

#8. I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

Neil Gaiman

#9. When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages
hate them to the death.

Joseph Conrad

#10. Lorraine, bless her pea-pickin' heart, was carrying a huge, triple-layer, chocolate cake.

Amy Harmon

#11. I could never forget your voice. You sound like an angel who's gotten her wings dirty.

Karina Halle

#12. With enough attention to anything, the essence of what you have been giving thought to will eventually become a physical manifestation.

Esther Hicks

#13. If it tries to take you, I won't let go.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.

Eliezer Berkovits

#15. Mrs. Bright cut another slice of the rich, dark cake. It was Mindy's fourth, counting dessert at home. But Mrs. Bright's layer cakes were, Mindy felt sure, the best in the world. Where else did you find the layers of icing almost as thick as the layers of cake?

Jane Louise Curry

#16. Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for
something your brain is not equipped to fully understand.
God is as real as the clothes you are wearing and the chair
you are sitting in. They are all metaphors for something you
will never understand.

Scott Adams

#17. WITH FAMILIAR AND EXOTIC PRODUCE CROWDING THE SUPERMARKET SHELVES FROM JANUARY TO December and farmers' markets making a comeback throughout the country, it may

Anonymous

#18. You ought to give thanks to the Lord.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

D.T. Suzuki

#20. Writing is like making a delicious cake. Use the best ingredients, layer the flavors, and finish it with panache. If your product is made with good taste, people will ask for more.

Claudia McCants

#21. I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it.

Allie Brosh

#22. History does not have sides, although historians do.

Jay Nordlinger

#23. Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

Charles Stross

#24. Give me a piece of cake from your love-life;
I'll show you how to lick fidelity's cream
off every layer you mistrust.

Munia Khan

#25. But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

Patty Hearst

#26. I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored

Tushar Raheja