Michael Palin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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”
-- Michael Palin

#Inspirational #Funny #Travel

“One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.”
-- Michael Palin

#Cycling #Important #Bicycle

“I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.”
-- Michael Palin

#Art #Travel #Perfect

“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.”
-- Michael Palin

#Writing #House #Feelings

“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
-- Michael Palin

#People #Argument #Cautious

“All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.”
-- Michael Palin

#Harm

“There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.”
-- Michael Palin

#Land #Volunteer #World

“I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.”
-- Michael Palin

#People #Want #Somalia

“The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.”
-- Michael Palin

#Travel #Journey #Trouble

“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.”
-- Michael Palin

#Religious #Thinking #Leader

“I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.”
-- Michael Palin

#Writing #Thinking #Modern

“I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.”
-- Michael Palin

#Finding Yourself #Sometimes

“I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.”
-- Michael Palin

#Character #People #Useless

“I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.”
-- Michael Palin

#Iran #Islands #Exotic

“I will die, but not retire.”
-- Michael Palin

#Retiring

“Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.”
-- Michael Palin

#Curiosity #World #Window

“I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.”
-- Michael Palin

#Years #Leaving #Mind

“I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.”
-- Michael Palin

#People

“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?”
-- Michael Palin

#Years #Awards #Achievement

“I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.”
-- Michael Palin

#Blessed #Careers #Two

“I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.”
-- Michael Palin

#People #One Day #Saws

“I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.”
-- Michael Palin

#Flower #Cutting #Tree

“The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.”
-- Michael Palin

#Sleep #Play #Dry

“Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!”
-- Michael Palin

#Skills #World #Analysis

“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.”
-- Michael Palin

#Teacher #School #Adventure

“It's not a model if it's full-size. It's a ice-breaker!”
-- Michael Palin

#Ice #Size #Models

“I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.”
-- Michael Palin

#Way #Life Is #Circumstances

“Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.”
-- Michael Palin

#Bugs #Antidote

“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.”
-- Michael Palin

#Suicide #Baby #War

“First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”
-- Michael Palin

#Naughty #Sight #Hands