Michael Caine Quotes

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Michael Caine

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• I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Like
  • Careers
  • Novel

• I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Beach

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Information

• Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Health
  • Care
  • Need

• My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.

  

  Alice Ripley

• I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Band

• There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

  

  Joan Chen
  • People
  • Money
  • Happy

• Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • Passion

• My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until the cows came home. You couldn't pull her away from it.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Home
  • Grandmother

• I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Deep

• I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Believe

• Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

  

  Linda Tripp
  • Respect

• Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • World
  • Remember

• I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.

  

  Christopher Cokinos
  • Environment
  • Bird
  • Wonderful

• Typically, you're not gonna find me out at night; I don't go to industry parties. Like, I will go sometimes if I'm invited, but usually, I'm, like, home by 11.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Home
  • Night

• I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Environment
  • Quiet
  • Subtle