Michael Palin Quotes
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I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.
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I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
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Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.
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Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.
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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
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John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.
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People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
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The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
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Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.
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I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.
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I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
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Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
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People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of ... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
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It's not a model if it's full-scale, Tomkinson, it's an icebreaker.
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I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
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When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.
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The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
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Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
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Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh
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I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
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There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.
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I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
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The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
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One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.
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As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.
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You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.
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I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
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I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
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