A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
Danielle Steel

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
Delia Smith

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
Paul Gauguin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell

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

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Walter Lord

But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.
Eva Herzigova

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

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.
Jane Asher

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.
Grace Slick

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

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
Jessica Savitch

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.
Muddy Waters

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

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
Fred Saberhagen