Top 100 Michael Scott Quotes
#1. I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them ... But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.
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#2. I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.
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#3. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.
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#4. Megalodons," Prometheus announced, pulling the Rukma higher and higher, little fountains of water spilling from the leaks in its sides.
"They were at least thirty feet long!" Scathach said.
"I know," replied the Elder. "They must have been babies.
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#5. The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.
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#6. Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
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#8. Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength ... and his weakness.
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#9. Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.
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#10. He had gone beyond frightened, past terrified, and straight to petrified.
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#11. I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.
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#12. What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you.
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#13. Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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#14. Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.
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#15. Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes
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#16. You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.
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#17. And Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops.
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#18. There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.
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#19. But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.
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#20. In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.
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#22. Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.
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#23. Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.
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#24. Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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#25. It is not easy to watch the world change around you. To see an entire way of life change and change and change again. It isn't easy to watch friends grown old and die, nor is it easy to be constantly moving on from place to place before people begin to wonder why you never age.
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#26. OK - answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?" Sophie Newman pressed her fingers against the Bluetooth earpiece as she spoke. On
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#27. Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.
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#28. Only the conscious mind sleeps - the unconscious is always aware.
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#29. In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done
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#30. He'd met Dee briefly and didn't like him; he was one of those arrogant European immortals who thought they were better than anyone else, just because they were older than the United States.
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#31. Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.
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#32. It was some time ago - in the twelfth century, as you humani measure time - a man from the land of the Scots. I do not remember his name." Both Sophie and Josh instinctively knew that Hekate was lying. "What happened to him?" Sophie asked. "He died." There was a peculiar high-pitched giggle.
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#33. I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.
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#34. If you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn.
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#36. The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.
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#37. Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
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#38. I am legend. Death has no claim over me, illness cannot touch me.
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#39. Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.
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#40. But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.
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#41. Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.
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#42. Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.
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#44. I'm not a bad guy ... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.
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#45. He'd never heard of a demon with freckles before.
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#46. He smiled at the sudden image of Prometheus tossing cars from one side of the bridge to the other to build his barrier. He heard the tiny tinkle of glass and wondered if being tossed across the Golden Gate Bridge by an Elder was covered by insurance.
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#47. I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.
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#48. He said I wasn't living. I was just surviving. And you know one thing, he's right
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#49. Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.
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#50. Don't be creative. Don't be stupid."
"That's what Machiavelli said. You guys really have a lot of faith in me, don't you?"
"Neither one of us wants to lose you. Just be careful, Billy. Careful is my middle name."
Black Hawk rolled his eyes. "You told me it was Henry.
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#51. The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her.
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#52. An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never - ever - tell someone you are going to draw your gun. You just do it.
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#53. I'm very fast. I'm like Forest Gump, except ... I am not an idiot!
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#54. They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!
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#55. When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.
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#56. Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?
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#59. When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this ... ' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true.
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#60. Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.
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#61. Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.
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#62. I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.
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#63. People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.
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#64. Niten's hand moved and the ragged end of the broken katana caught the crocodile in the center of the chest. Eyes wide, mouth gaping in surprise, it staggered back into the fog. "You talk too much," Niten whispered.
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#65. When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.
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#66. He came to a decision and looked at Dagon before climbing into the car.
"Find the Disir."
Dagon stiffened, showing a rare sign of emotion. "Is that wise?" he asked.
"It is neccessary.
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#67. Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?
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#68. Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.
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#69. The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.
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#70. An office is a place to ... live life to the fullest. To the max. To ... an office is a place where dreams come true.
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#71. He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.
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#74. That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.
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#75. I swore to myself that if I ever got to walk around the room as manager, people would laugh when they saw me coming, and would applaud as I walked away.
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#76. Clarent and Excalibur. Together. Yesterday, he had held them in his hands and watched as the two swords had fused together to create a single stone sword. Even from across the room, Dee could feel the power radiating from the object in long slow waves.
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#77. You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
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#78. But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.
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#79. Humans were never meant to be vegetarian, Hel bubbled, her face and fangs black with fluids.
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#80. Coffee is the great incentivizer in the office.
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#81. Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.
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#82. And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this ... This is always true.
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#83. There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.
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#86. Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.
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#87. Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.
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#88. I met an immortal humani once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Aoife the Shadows
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#89. A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.
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#90. I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.
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#91. Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops." She turned to face Dee and pulled off her dark glasses to reveal the mirrors of her eyes. "You should go now. You've got about three seconds." Dee didn't quite make it out of the shop before it exploded.
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#92. Sisters are a trial," he said. "And it doesn't matter if they're Elder or humani. Sometimes I think they exist solely to upset and annoy their brothers.
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#93. Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.
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#94. A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.
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#95. What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.
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#96. Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.
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#97. My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology.However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.
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#98. Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.
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#99. Josh was ordinary. But ordinary teens did not find themselves in the middle of a battle between two incredibly ancient magicians.
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#100. The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.
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