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Michael Palin Quotes

Michael Palin quotes

British Comedian May 3, 1943

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Michael Palin quote: "I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love..."
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
Michael Palin quote: "Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I..."
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
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. Michael Palin
Michael Palin quote: "One of the most important days of my life was when I learned..."
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle. Michael Palin
Michael Palin quote: "My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how..."
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. Michael Palin
Michael Palin quote: "I think some of the best modern writing comes now from..."
I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. Michael Palin
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
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. Michael Palin
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
Michael Palin quote: "The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can..."
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. Michael Palin
A good day's filming at last... John Horton's rabbit effects are superb. A really vicious white rabbit, which bites Sir Bor's head off. Much of the ground lost over the week is made up. We listen to the Cup Final in between fighting the rabbit -- Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0. Michael Palin
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. Michael Palin
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. Michael Palin
Michael Palin quote: "Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing..."
Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'. Michael Palin
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all. Michael Palin

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