Thank Goodness For Cake Quotes & Sayings

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid. — Kurt Schrader

When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and spark; there is a vivid flash and a deafening roar, but when the smoke is blown away, it is the end. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Greatness is not a flower that grows in an easy life; it grows in the adversity of life. — Debasish Mridha

When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect. — Elizabeth Aston

I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a good second-rate poet. I repeated it aloud in a Guardian interview in 1976, and some people thought I was a coy old thing. — John Pudney

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. — Leo Buscaglia

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. — Norah Jones

Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on. — Tor Norretranders

I'm not about hurting the person I'm with. — Tila Tequila

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not. — Heinrich Heine

Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But stories are just tools. They shouldn't become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality. Then we begin entire wars 'to make a lot of money for the cooperation' or 'to protect the national interest'. Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our life in their service. — Yuval Noah Harari

Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction. — Barack Obama

I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment. — Sean Booth

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. — George Eliot

I looked up from my writing,
And gave a start to see,
As if rapt in my inditing,
The moon's full gaze on me. — Thomas Hardy

Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written about him for me to add to the legend. As that legend began to grow in his lifetime I learned to separate him from his poetry, to find him in person increasingly tedious and his poems increasingly exciting, both in print and when he was reading them. — John Pudney

The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna — Radhanath Swami