Karl Pilkington Route 66 Quotes

We should all love animals. ~ Karl Pilkington

The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top. ~ Karl Pilkington

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared. ~ Karl Pilkington

We seem to live in a world where you have to walk around grinning like a loon. I can't understand all the fuss about Mona Lisa painting, everyone wondering why she's not smiling, if she's depressed or heartbroken. No, she was just normal!
Emotions are always extreme these days: you either have to be crying with laughter or crying in pain. No wonder water levels are rising. It's not global warming, it's all the tears from crying. ~ Karl Pilkington

What I mean is, I don't know what I mean ... ~ Karl Pilkington

I had a coconut on the way, which was another first for me. A drink and food all in one. It didn't look like the normal coconuts you win at fairgrounds. There was no hair on it. I don't know if that's how they grow here or if it's that Brazilians hate hair on anything and they've waxed them. ~ Karl Pilkington

Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe. ~ Karl Pilkington

At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf. ~ Karl Pilkington

Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face. ~ Karl Pilkington

Honestly, all the trouble Noah went to saving the animals two by two and now we're making handbags out of them. I ~ Karl Pilkington

They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't lock animals up and all the rest of it, but to be honest I wish it was locked up. The idea that it's roaming in a jungle ... get it locked up. ~ Karl Pilkington

You never see an old man eating a Twix ~ Karl Pilkington

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me. ~ Karl Pilkington

We're just a weed in the universe ~ Karl Pilkington

A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised. ~ Karl Pilkington

The Web is the new book though, innit? ~ Karl Pilkington

We all just want to sit on our ass. ~ Karl Pilkington

My mam told me not to tell many people about not being christened, as she said I would be a prime target for witches. To this day I don't know what she meant by that. ~ Karl Pilkington

We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle? ~ Karl Pilkington

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years. ~ Karl Pilkington

Be the ugly one, look at the nice one. ~ Karl Pilkington

This is exactly the sort of thing that makes traveling wonderful for me, the reason I defied everyone. The two of us together like we have always been, not saying anything, not doing anything special, just on vacation. I know nothing lasts, but even when you know that things are just about over, sometimes you can run back and take a little bit more and no one will notice. ~ Michael Zadoorian

I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut ~ Karl Pilkington

from the ceiling but made little difference. I sat wondering if it was part of Brazilian tradition to invite someone to stay but then fuck off out for the evening. Seems a bit odd to me. I ~ Karl Pilkington

We pass a church with a massive blue neon cross, and I am spiritually lifted by feelings of great religiosity. No, I'm not, for crying out loud. Don't be ridiculous. But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life. You have to admire how these people shamelessly try to get your attention as you drive by, whether they're trying to feed you a hamburger or a savior. (p.37) ~ Michael Zadoorian

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads? ~ Karl Pilkington

Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving ~ Neal Shusterman

the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'. ~ Karl Pilkington

One of my wisdom teeth is playing up. My dentist said it is known to happen with some people when they're stressed. My teeth seem to know I'm stressed before I do. Maybe that's why they're called wisdom teeth. ~ Karl Pilkington

So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine? ~ Karl Pilkington

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost. ~ Erol Ozan

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone. ~ Karl Pilkington

I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes? ~ Karl Pilkington

It annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing. ~ Karl Pilkington

You are so going down for that." He grabbed the keys and headed back to the road. "When you least expect it," he added over his shoulder.
"I'm shaking in my shoes," she called out.
"You're not wearing any."
"Exactly."
Damn, he liked this girl. ~ Robin Bielman

I've never been touched by such an old man. ~ Karl Pilkington

I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you? ~ Karl Pilkington

This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but tweaked. Everything is 'new and improved'. ~ Karl Pilkington

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age. ~ Karl Pilkington

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this. ~ Karl Pilkington

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot. ~ Karl Pilkington

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester. ~ Karl Pilkington

I could eat a knob at night. ~ Karl Pilkington

The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much. ~ Karl Pilkington

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life. ~ Karl Pilkington