I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing,… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses,… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable! — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
