Michael Palin Quotes

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

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• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Player

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Together
  • Relationship

• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Course
  • Directing

• If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Appreciation
  • Shown

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Reason
  • Like
  • Act

• There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Great
  • Queen
  • Trap

• My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

  

  Peter Scolari
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Dad

• Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Roots
  • Searching

• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Sunshine

• Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Beautiful
  • Culture
  • Brave

• I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Religious
  • Problems
  • Leaders