Quotes with plum-cake

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  • Sydney Smith All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Busy Philipps Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Buddy Valastro Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Brit Morin For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Marie Antoinette If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
    Marie Antoinette
    Queen of France (1755 - 1793)
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  • Richard Nixon It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • W. H. Auden My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bee Wilson The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bertolt Brecht The plum tree in the yard's so small
    It's hardly like a tree at all.
    Yet there it is, railed round
    To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
    Though if it could it would for sure.
    There's nothing to be done
    It gets too little sun.
    Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Billy Corgan The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
    Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Bob Hope You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Carolyn Wells You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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