Top 100 Quotes About Michael Scott
#1. Vincent Van Gogh. You know what everyone said to him? You can't paint, you've only got one ear.
Know what he said back? "I can't hear you." - Michael Scott
Michael Scott
#2. In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.
Rob Sheffield
#3. There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people.
Greg Daniels
#4. On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.
Greg Daniels
#5. Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn't have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell's character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.
Steve Carell
#6. 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.
Michael Scott
#8. The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.
Michael Scott
#9. 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.
Michael Scott
#10. The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
Michael Scott
#11. I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Michael Scott
#12. At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.
Michael Scott
#13. A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.
Michael Scott
#14. Z, can you see?" "Oh sure, looks like black with darker spots of black on a burning black background of blackness.
Michael-Scott Earle
#15. I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.
Michael Scott
#16. 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.
Michael Scott
#17. Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.
Michael Scott
#19. 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.
Michael Scott
#20. The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.
Michael Scott
#21. Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
Michael Scott
#22. Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.
Michael Scott
#23. I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.
Michael Scott
#24. Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.
Michael Scott
#25. 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.
Michael Scott
#29. Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength ... and his weakness.
Michael Scott
#30. She had grown up in a time of monsters, and it was fear and cowardice that had kept her alive through the millennia.
Michael Scott
#31. - John is a dangerous fanatic.
- And you are not ? - asked Dagon.
- I'm just dangerous.
Michael Scott
#32. Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.
Michael Scott
#33. But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.
Michael Scott
#34. Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost.
Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back.
Saracen: Even your immortality?
Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?
Michael Scott
#37. Perenelle shuddered. You know I hate leprechauns more than almost anything.
Michael Scott
#38. I don't plan. Anyone in my way can either step aside or I will step over them.
Michael Scott
#39. He had gone beyond frightened, past terrified, and straight to petrified.
Michael Scott
#40. 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.
Michael Scott
#41. There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.
Michael Scott
#42. My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.
Michael Scott
#43. I lived in Chicago until I was about 12, and then I moved to Dallas until I was 19. So I think both were probably the time right when I was about to get an accent, or I lost it right when I moved.
Scott Michael Foster
#44. What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you.
Michael Scott
#45. It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.
Scott Michael Foster
#46. Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Michael Scott
#47. To the game I'm true like the sun first rose
I'm real like my man Michael Jackson's first nose
Dred Scott
#48. Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.
Michael Scott
#49. 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
Michael Scott
#50. You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.
Michael Scott
#51. Its aura distorts hard edges. Shimmering vortices of discoloration boil off, swirling, licking the
cold night air with bright spectral fire. Violence and death, this one's still hot.
Michael Allan Scott
#52. It was always better--safer--to be overlooked.
Michael Scott
#53. The willing horse carries the heaviest burden. Take a care not to overload the willing horse.
Michael Scott
#54. It's so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception
Michael Allan Scott
#56. And Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops.
Michael Scott
#57. Dr. John Dee looked up. "Look at this world," he said, pointing at something hidden far away in the mountainside. "Once begun, change may not be reversed.
Michael Scott
#58. 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.
Michael Scott
#59. Its mouth was wide and its teeth were wickedly pointed. He managed a brief "Hey!" and jerked away from the window ... just as the rat hit the glass with a furry, wet thump. It slid down to the alley one floor below, where it staggered around in stunned surprise.
Michael Scott
#60. But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.
Michael Scott
#61. Niccolo Machiaveli stood apart from the rest of the crowd, arms lightly folded across his chest, careful not to wrinkle his Saile Row- tailored black silk tuxedo. Stone gray eyes swept over the other bidders, analyzing and assessing them.
Michael Scott
#62. Nicholas: One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.
Josh: DNA.
Michael Scott
#63. The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening;
Michael Scott
#64. 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.
Michael Scott
#65. I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.
Scott Michael Foster
#67. Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.
Michael Scott
#68. Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?'
Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.
Michael Scott
#69. Everything that Michael Fassbender touches is elevated.
Reid Scott
#70. Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.
Michael Scott
#71. They had turned fifteen last December and had already started to save for their own car. They estimated it would take them at least two years - if they bought no CDs, DVDs, games, clothes or shoes, which were Sophie's big weakness.
Michael Scott
#72. 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.
Michael Scott
#73. 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.
Michael Scott
#74. What's the problem?" Josh demanded. "I can used my aura and just ... "
"..just reveal our location to everyone," Dee snapped. "No, I forbid it."
"Well,if you have a genius plan, now's the time to reveal it," Josh said nervously.
Michael Scott
#75. We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.
Michael Scott
#76. Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.
Michael Scott
#77. 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
Michael Scott
#78. Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way. I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.
Michael Scott
#80. 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.
Michael Scott
#82. Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?
Michael Scott
#84. I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."
Michael Scott
#85. Only the conscious mind sleeps - the unconscious is always aware.
Michael Scott
#86. In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done
Michael Scott
#87. Why would anyone want to feel pain or fear?" Josh wondered aloud, both intrigued and repelled by the very idea. It seemed somehow wrong.
"So they can feel alive," Scatty said.
Michael Scott
#88. So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark. -Virginia Dare.
Michael Scott
#89. The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.
Michael Scott
#90. Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous
Michael Scott
#91. For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end - and how the first chapter of the following book would begin. I knew I wanted to leave the readers with answers - and a bunch of new questions!
Michael Scott
#92. What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
Michael Scott
#93. 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.
Michael Scott
#94. Any resemblance to real events, actual persons, or reality in general is entirely coincidental.
Scott Michael Decker
#95. And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.
Michael Scott
#96. My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!
Jill Scott
#97. And you have to remember that humankind really does not want to believe in magic. They don't want to know that myths and legends were almost always based on the truth.
Michael Scott
#98. Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.
Michael Scott
#99. but Odin had other plans. The huge figure pushed away from the only living thing in his world - a puny and twisted version of the Yggdrasill - and prepared to cross the Shadowrealms.
Michael Scott
#100. 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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