Quotes About Cake Icing

#1. On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.

Donald Hall

#2. Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!

J.K. Rowling

#3. All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Mr. T

#4. I've never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a decent body of work to show people, the icing on the cake being 'Salmon Fishing' and 'Parade's End.'

Tom Mison

#5. The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.

Tony Scott

#6. His mouth tasted of the divine sweetness of icing on a cake when the sugar isn't overdone. The taste of love before any pain gets in the way.

Cat Winters

#7. I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain.

Alyxandria Harvey

#8. The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through ...

John Ashbery

#9. When you come to me
come to me with cake
in your pocket
come to me nicely
with that soft kinda cake
that's mostly icing
come to me ready and rude
bring me angel food
angel food

Ani DiFranco

#10. I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the two of us remained connected like the icing on one of those made from scratch cakes...

Kat Kaelin

#11. I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

Satish Kumar

#12. There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.

Fay Weldon

#13. If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Aberjhani

#14. If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

Jeff Conaway

#15. Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

Peter Guber

#16. 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

#17. I was fortunate to sell at a time of great sea change in the romance genre; suddenly heroines were allowed to be portrayed as having rich, fulfilling lives. They didn't need a man for security or self-esteem, but having that one very special man in their lives proved the icing on the cake.

JoAnn Ross

#18. Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

Adrian Pasdar

#19. Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

Nellie L. McClung

#20. The icing on the cake is when other people enjoy your vision and support what you do.

Cise Star

#21. Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

Andy Partridge

#22. [T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with cherries on top. And chocolate shavings and those little silver balls that cracked your fillings.

Kate Atkinson

#23. I already have the cake. You're the icing on top, with sprinkles, candied fruit, and chocolate drizzle.

Sylvia Day

#24. When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Richard Roundtree

#25. My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

Lindsey Vonn

#26. Fuck what they think. This is about doing what I love, following my dreams. If they like it, that's just icing on the cake. If I lived my life worried about everyone else, I would go insane.

Teresa Mummert

#27. 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

#28. She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she'd left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.

Ed Lynskey

#29. It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.

Ken Jennings

#30. [Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

Ice Cube

#31. There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. 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

#33. I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

#34. Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he'd decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

Nalini Singh

#35. Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako

Naoko Takeuchi

#36. I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted.

Vijay Singh

#37. Flow can be described as the icing on the cake

Derek Tate

#38. I'm going to have the daintiest things possible ... things that will match the spring, you understand ... little jelly tarts and lady fingers, and drop cookies frosted with pink and yellow icing, and buttercup cake.

L.M. Montgomery

#39. Every job after the first job I got was icing on the cake. This is so much fun.

Katee Sackhoff

#40. Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake.

Sue Grafton

#41. In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.

Peter Baynham

#42. We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

Meg Whitman

#43. Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

Julia Child

#44. Life is a cake and love is the icing on top of it. Without 'love', it becomes difficult to swallow 'life' ...

Mehek Bassi

#45. I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness.

Jhonen Vasquez

#46. That's like piss icing on the shit cake.

R.S. Grey

#47. Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

Antony Gormley

#48. White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

Fran Lebowitz

#49. Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.

Bill Rodgers

#50. What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

Anna Sui

#51. Of course I want to succeed, but at this point I'm not even sure if that matters. I had a dream and I busted my ass to make it come true. Whatever happens after today is just icing on the cake.

Colleen Hoover

#52. Do you know what I did? I urrrrrinated on the cake at my ex-wife's wedding. Pissssed all over the icing.
Melvin Baylor - Seven Up

Janet Evanovich

#53. I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.

Emeril Lagasse

#54. I think it's more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake.

Stephen P. Anderson

#55. Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

Joshua Harris

#56. CHILD: "Why does carrot cake have the best icing?" MOTHER: "Because it needs the best icing." Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember

B.J. Novak

#57. You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake, You're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft, You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep, You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out.

Modest Mouse

#58. You might call them the icing on "life's cake," but music, laughter and the enjoyment of eating are the toppings that flavor everyday living. These added accents or accessories do spice up the cake. If served without, life would be rather bland!

Wes Adamson

#59. When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.

B.o.B

#60. I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

Gale Anne Hurd

#61. As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.

Ed Yong

#62. She snorted and went back to the cake. As she smoothed on the last of the icing, she frowned. "It doesn't really look like suklaada cake, does it?"
No, but he wasn't going to admit that. "Looks good to me.

-Brianna & Aeron

Savannah Stuart

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

Brian Greene

#64. I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

Jimmy Carr

#65. 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

#66. If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,
or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

Emily Carr

#67. Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.

Saru Singhal

#68. Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

Orna Ross

#69. Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.

Kajol