Michael Palin Quotes

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.

Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.

Nothing ever goes to plan. As soon as you are OK with that, everything is much easier.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.