Welcome To The Layer Cake Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.

Gregg Braden

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

Amy Harmon

#6. 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

#7. I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

Christina Ricci

#8. We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true
if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred
all those things
you will find those too.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.

Angela Merkel

#10. To his ear, of course, she suffered some from that malady of her generation- an almost laconic indifference toward speaking concisely- a circling and avoidance of linguistic specificity that bordered on a verbal form of shoulder-shrugging.

Steve Amick

#11. So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

William Shakespeare

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.

Guus Hiddink

#18. 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

#19. 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