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Being here is the icing on the cake. Right now we're trying to put the cherry on top.


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JACQUIE FERNANDES We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU International box office really used to be the icing on the cake. Now it is often the cake itself.
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JOSEPH BARNES It's wonderful. It means so much to skate well, and then be rewarded on top of that is icing on the ...
SASHA COHEN Wow, this is the icing on the cake.
DORIS ROBERTS This is like the icing on the cake.
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HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
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JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!
PETER GUBER I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and ...
CHANNING TATUM That would mean would be icing on the cake. The past 27 years has been the cake, that would be the i...
BOB HERMAN The truth is this is all fun for me. I've never been here before, so it's all icing on the cake.
GEORGE CLOONEY We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.
MEG WHITMAN It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.
EILEEN COLLINS The gold medal was icing on the cake, ... but the cake was real rotten!
CHRIS CAMERON If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
BRIAN GREENE We can say we have the cake and now we're just missing the cherry on top. We're closer (to the final...
CARLO ANCELOTTI We've had such a tremendous year and we want to put some icing on that cake.
ERIC BOYLE With the stamp (under consideration), that is like icing on the cake.
MICHAEL CERLETTI We thought that when he was drafted that that was it, that was the top. But this is even better than...
GLADYS BETTIS This is the icing on the cake to a career I could only dream of.
ISAIAH DAHLMAN Annika surprised us all. That was icing on the cake.
FRED COUPLES We were afraid it wouldn't happen (on Thursday), so the fact that we did get to see the launch was i...
BETH GROGAN But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
KEN JENNINGS They've already had a successful season. This is just icing on the cake.
DAVID HARTWELL Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.
SARU SINGHAL Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The A-list celebrities were always going to be the icing on the cake. It's always been more of an en...
RICKY GERVAIS This bill puts icing on a moldy cake.
REP. SHELLEY VANA We had the recipe that we needed to win tonight. We just didn't put the icing on the top.
JOE MACRI Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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GARRETT GOMEZ Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the...
CHARLI XCX What an intelligence he has, and the icing on cake is, his intelligence doubt itself.
DR HITESH C SHETH My job was to come out here and get the 100 and 200 gold medals. That's what I did. The (relay) was ...
JUSTIN GATLIN This is the icing on the cake. Nine wonderful years on Everybody Loves Raymond , and to finish it of...
DORIS ROBERTS It's more than I ever though it would be. My dream was to stand on that stage and sing, and that's j...
GARY LEVOX Her talent and poise is what's very compelling for companies. Her ethnicity is icing on the cake.
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JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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GAILE PARKIN While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the c...
COREY HAWKINS Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core pri...
JOSEPH ANNOTTI Acquisitions are the cherry on the top. Our focus is on growing existing businesses.
HARRY TODD Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the ...
LINDSEY VONN That was the icing on the cake so I could go to bed knowing I was under weight.
BRENDAN FLANAGAN I?m going to hang them on my wall beside my guitar. I've been saved and been through a lot but this ...
JADE STONE We're blessed and proud . . . and if he has a great game, that's icing on the cake.
JIMMY WALKER I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
ISAAC HANSON Wayne was such a big part of my career here in Edmonton as well as everybody's that I think that hav...
PAUL COFFEY The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI A spot was available here on the right wing, so I'm hoping I can slide in and contribute as best I c...
ANSON CARTER What's Your Road, Man?
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TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
KAREN TAYLEUR Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The deals have been the de-icing on the cake. The more dominant issue is the Nasdaq bounce, which we...
GEORGE HODGSON Sex and the City to me never really was about sex, that was kind of the icing on the cake. Success i...
CANDACE BUSHNELL My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has nev...
DARYNDA JONES The medal is the icing on the cake. The real medal is becoming a Canadian citizen, getting the oppor...
LASCELLES BROWN When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes ...
B.O.B Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for y...
IAN PHILPOT Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are out there performing all the time. As kickers, we're not out ther...
ADAM VINATIERI The audience is right on top of the act now.
DOUG KAUFFMAN A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
JENNIFER ANISTON All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,...
MR. T I'm more excited for the kids. I told them I've been there twice as a player. To go as a coach is ic...
PAUL ANDREWS I guess the best team that I played on was probably the 1984 team. Laying a beating on Hamilton with...
BOB CAMERON If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.
JEFF CONAWAY The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detrac...
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
JIMMY DEAN A company's BI platform is the cake and the dashboard is the icing on the cake. What BI does is the ...
JOHN HAGERTY The home run was the icing on the cake. It gave us even more momentum going into the bottom half of ...
CHAD WILLIAMS Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
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MARK MCGWIRE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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JANET FULAY I thought it would be nice if I got one or two. Everything after that was just icing on the cake.
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JIM BUTCHER Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me somethin...
JIM BUTCHER It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does n...
JIM BUTCHER Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste...
JIM BUTCHER We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.
JIM BUTCHER He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.
JIM BUTCHER I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once.

"El...
JIM BUTCHER Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless...
JIM BUTCHER I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pant...
JIM BUTCHER Do you really think you can win?'
'Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbi...
JIM BUTCHER Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It i...
JIM BUTCHER They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make...
JIM BUTCHER I put the ick in magic.
JIM BUTCHER Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector...
JIM BUTCHER My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.
JIM BUTCHER I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at t...
JIM BUTCHER Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.
JIM BUTCHER It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thin...
JIM BUTCHER There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
JIM BUTCHER You're such a cynic," Molly said.

"I think cynics are playful and cute.
JIM BUTCHER I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.
JIM BUTCHER Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute hi...
JIM BUTCHER Gandalf never had this kind of problem.
He had exactly this problem, actually, standing in fro...
JIM BUTCHER I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell....
JIM BUTCHER Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
JIM BUTCHER Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"
The lady smiled. ...
JIM BUTCHER