A Quote by Tom Robbins

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

Tom Robbins

Quote Topics

Cake Language

Quote Author

Tom Robbins
American - Novelist
Born: July 22, 1936

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

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

Tabitha King

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

Tabitha King

My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.

Alex Meneses

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

Maggie Stiefvater

I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.

Stephen Colbert

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

Amy Bloom

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

I love roast chicken, juicy summer tomatoes, and carrot cake slathered with tangy cream-cheese frosting.

Samin Nosrat

The process of making a wedding cake is complex on its own, from designing, mis-en-place, baking, frosting, structuring, decorating, to delivering.

Ron Ben-Israel

Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

Patrick Rothfuss

Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it's for a check. It's not what I want to do. Comedy's my thing. Stand up's my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.