People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. — 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… — 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… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me,… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python'… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers… — 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
I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people… — 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