Idolatry Quote by Michael Palin Download Open image “I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.” — Michael Palin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idolatry Modern Thinking Traveller Writing
“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The best of… — Tom Miller Copy Share Image
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function. Poetry is… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding 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
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
“A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a… — Richard Keyes Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.” — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its… — Carl R Trueman Copy Share Image
