Michael Caine Quotes

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Michael Caine

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• Forget the haters, just get ya money, just get ya weight up.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Money
  • Hate

• I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Discovery
  • Aries

• No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Children
  • Society
  • Choice

• People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Iraq
  • Troops

• If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Done
  • Drawing
  • Form

• When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.

  

  Deborah King
  • People
  • Day
  • Works

• I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

  

  Miep Gies
  • People
  • Growing
  • Feelings

• Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Song
  • Literature
  • Script

• C. Montgomery Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Evil
  • Nixon
  • C. Montgomery Burns

• Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

  

  Esther Meynell
  • Country
  • Death
  • Civilization

• I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • People
  • Competition
  • Sound

• Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Flowers
  • Hide
  • Chains

• Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

  

  Karen Walker
  • Thinking
  • Jesus
  • Winter

• I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it. He actually went on an expedition after the Everest climb to look for the Yeti, and they didn't find it, but they found a footprint and some hair samples that turned out to be a goat or something.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Guy
  • Fans
  • Climbs

• I do take time to pray. I also start my day in gratitude, and as my first foot hits the floor in the morning when I climb out of bed, I say "Thank," and as the next foot hits the floor, I say "You," and I say "Thank you" all the way to the bathroom. Starts the day in the right headspace and the right heart space!

  

  Roma Downey
  • Morning
  • Gratitude
  • Saying

• Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Pain

• When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Climbs