I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.
I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.
Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with.
The record is nice but what we really want to make sure is that we win the conference. If you gave me a choice any given year - you are going to have a loss but you're going to win the conference tournament at the end of the year - I would take that. The record is just frosting on the cake.
Andre was for a time fighting his own personal battles, whatever they were, and wasn't putting his whole heart into the tennis. The way I see it in his eyes, this is just frosting.
We were arguing over the color of the frosting and we don't even have a cake.
Music's 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.
Swedish meatballs were the favorite, and the 'Happy Birthday, Poppy' cake with cream cheese frosting.
I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
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