Poetry Quote by Michael Palin

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

— Michael Palin

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

— 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…

— Michael Palin

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

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

Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.

— Michael Palin

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

— Michael Palin

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

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

— Michael Palin

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

— Michael Palin

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

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