Top 30 Icing Quotes

In any other context, ‘icing’ is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus – a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee‘s raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.

There are two really good feelings. The first is when you land sponsorships that allow you to be competitive. Then to win a race is the icing on the cake that you’ve made with the sponsorship.

On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu – meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.

Let me tell you, I’m not sure if America runs on donuts, but I sure do! Nothin’ like a little simple sugar icing to get the blood pumping at 9:00 A.M.

When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the cake to me.

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake – your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

It’s so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.

The true excitement comes from the actors – that gives you the true drama – and whatever I can do with the camera, that’s icing on the cake.

Winning the Diamond League with a personal record, it’s like icing on the cake.

I think it’s always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It’s the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.

If I wouldn’t have medaled at the Olympics, it still would have been a successful trip. The medal is the icing on the cake.

For me, it’s about making art that’s not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn’t want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn’t think, ‘I wonder what the industry is gonna think about ‘Purple Rain.” It’s just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

I love just getting to experience the different types of fans and getting to perform in front of thousands of people every night; that is icing on the cake for me. That is the fun.

I don’t work for awards; they’re just an icing on the cake.

Nail polish is like the icing on the beauty cake.

Whipped ganache is a great gateway icing if you’re working your way slowly into the vast world of egg-based buttercreams. It’s just a few ingredients and far superior in flavor to the basic butter/sugar/milk frosting.

I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that’s icing on the cake.

I’ve never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a decent body of work to show people, the icing on the cake being ‘Salmon Fishing‘ and ‘Parade‘s End.’

We’re really spoiled on ‘Mad Men.’ Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.

While studying art and design at Central Saint Martins, I went round supermarkets taking photos of shoppers and their baskets: the game was to match people with their food. For an architectural project, I made a scale model of a shop out of gingerbread rather than foam and added icing and sweets very colourfully.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed – the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it’s really the same.

Red velvet cake is my absolute favorite. It has to be an actual slice of cake, not a cupcake; there’s more surface area, so the icing ratio is higher.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

For a while, I loved everything about it, every single aspect of what was supposed to be a job. The training – I loved to train. I loved the traveling. I dug being in the locker room. I didn’t mind icing and heat. I dug it. It was like, ‘Cool. I’d rather do this than anything.’

If I’ve made something really serene… well, if everything is like that, it’s like having too much icing on your cake. You need something else under it, some kind of grounding. It’s like if you’re making a film, you can’t have only happy moments, or else they become meaningless.