A Quote by Gail Carriger

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Gail Carriger

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Gail Carriger
American - Writer
Born: May 4, 1976

Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity’s sake? Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. “I do what I can.” Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. “You are a brave man.

Gail Carriger

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

Bethenny Frankel

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

Langston Hughes

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

Adam Riess

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

Morgan Neville

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.

Willie Geist

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

Timothy B. Schmit

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Tom Robbins

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

Judy Collins

Lord Akeldama sighed. 'You lovebirds, how will I endure such flirtations constantly in my company? How déclassé, Lord Maccon, to love your own wife.

Gail Carriger

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

Tabitha King

Lord Maccon looked up. “Grovel, you say?” Lyall did not glance away from the latest vampire report he was perusing. “Grovel, my lord.

Gail Carriger

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.