Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
Concerning Cake, Bilbo Baggins and Charity. (19 January 2014) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2014/01/concerning-cake-bilbo-baggins-and-charity/ <br class="br">Official site
Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
Concerning Cake, Bilbo Baggins and Charity. (19 January 2014) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2014/01/concerning-cake-bilbo-baggins-and-charity/ <br class="br">Official site
“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 7, Identity And Anxiety, p. 81
“The cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: The Calling
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)
“I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Said to a young Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who had written a piece critical of Plato in response to his earlier conversation with Emerson, as reported by Felix Frankfurter in Harlan Buddington Phillips, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960), p. 59
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.”
George Harrison book I, Me, Mine
Source: I, Me, Mine
“Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.”
Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire
Source: The Throne of Fire