Michael Palin Quotes

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• George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.
• 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…
• I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
• 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…
• Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!
• Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
• 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.
• 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,…
• 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…
• There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic -…
• The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
• I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special -…
• In the absence of fear there is little faith.
• If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.
• From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also…
• All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.
• One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.
• 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…
• Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh
• The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

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