'Underneath That' Cake

Let them eat cake. - Marie Antoinette

Chocolate cake is the bomb! - Scarlett Pomers

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

A party without cake is just a meeting. - Julia Child

There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. - Mary McCarthy

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Leman

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert. - George Takei

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it. - Boris Johnson

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake. - Larry Hagman

There's one good thing about being bald: it's neat. - Milton Berle

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be. - Lady Gaga

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. - George Harrison

"Let 'em eat cake," to quote the late Mark Antonette. - Archie Bunker

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. - Cilla Black

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event. - Ron Ben-Israel

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? - Lisa Loeb

This is a Jewish cake - they give this to a Jewish kid before he gets circumscribed. - Archie Bunker

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. - Mitch Hedberg

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. - Meg Whitman

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. - Audrey Hepburn

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. - C.S. Forester

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence. - Unknown

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. - Kirsten Dunst

I remember when the candle shop burned won. Everyone stood around singing "Happy Birthday." - Steven Wright

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. - Steven Wright

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. - George Burns

When you're stressed, eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts. - Unknown

I like to eat pizza and spaghetti pomodoro, and I'm crazy for dessert. I like all of them: cassata, cheesecake, biscuits. - Stefano Gabbana

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' - Jerry Seinfeld

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 M Nixon

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker. - Judd Nelson

I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake. - Maria Sharapova

I'm a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I've made some psychedelic birthday cakes. - Greg Rutherford

A happy life is made up of little things - a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent. - Carol Holmes

When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn't realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds of rice and how the heat pops it like popcorn, the light bulb went off. This is popped. This isn't baked or fried. - Keith Belling