Cake Quote by Mary McCarthy Download Open image “What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.” — Mary McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cake Imaginary Plums Real
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Life, my brethren, is like plum-cake. In some the plums are all on the top, and we eat them gayly, till we suddenly find… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine. — David Cross Copy Share Image
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion Copy Share Image
In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's certain cakes you've got to have, maybe a pie here and there. But I know to not do it as much. — Biz Markie Copy Share Image
My mom is really good at cake decorating and she learned how to take gumdrops and melt them and turn them into flowers. — Chloe Fineman Copy Share Image
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.” — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. — Ludwig Erhard Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything.… — Metro Boomin Copy Share Image
It's strange because pandan cake isn't hard to make but yet it can only be bought in Singapore. — Zhao Wei Copy Share Image
“I bring the leftovers to rehearsal, and Ms. Albright lets us have a cake picnic on the stage. And by cake picnic, I mean… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
Your favorite kind of cake can't be birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
“We went for a walk on College Street and popped into Coco's for a snack. There, I revealed my future, much like the exquisitely… — Amy Rosen Copy Share Image
The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
