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American television writer and novelist 1962Related quotes
“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
“Frosting
Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Source: The Panther and the Lash
“I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Would you both eat your cake, and have your cake?
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
Ray Charles (1930–2004) American musician
As quoted "Words of the Week" in Jet magazine, Vol. 64, No. 6 (25 April 1983), p. 40
Context: Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
“Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem