Quotes About Christmas Cakes

#1. Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

Andrew Davidson

#2. Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with

Benjamin Hoff

#3. Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

David Whyte

#4. 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

#5. He said "see" as if it meant something more than what one did with one's eyes.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. When you smile, you pretty much wreck me.

Jennifer Probst

#7. Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

Hanya Yanagihara

#8. Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.

Geoff Watts

#10. I ... Why do you want me to?"
There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness, and then she said, "Why wouldn't I want you to?"
Because you hate me, I thought, but I didn't say it.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#11. I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. Singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.

Laini Taylor

#13. Beauty like hers had no place in his life.

Kelly Moran

#14. Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Edward Everett Hale

#15. Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

Ron Fournier

#16. Nor do I try to keep a garden, only
An avocado in a glass of water --
Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later,

When the small gilt leaves have grown
Fleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes,
And start another. I am earth's no less.

James Merrill

#17. It seems you can't go anywhere today without seeing some popular culture rendition of Vampyres. I went into a bookstore a few weeks ago and there was an entire section devoted to Teenage Paranormal Romance. Can you imagine?

Abramelin Keldor