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

• 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 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

• Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Wife
  • Trump

• Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're out on the road touring and touring and then making records, you're just constantly looking forward, constantly working. You don't really stop to look at where you are or where you've been.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Stop
  • Road

• It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Country
  • Reality

• One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • World
  • Children
  • Holocaust

• Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • May
  • War
  • Age

• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Existence
  • Dwelling

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Environment
  • Quiet
  • Subtle