Michael scott quotes

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

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.

Perenelle shuddered. "You know I hate leprechauns more than almost anything.

I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.

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.

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.

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.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

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.

Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

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.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

Coffee is the great incentivizer in the office.

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

but do i need to say anything?" sophie asked. "do i need to learn any words?" "like what?" saint-germain said. "well, when you lit up the eiffel tower, you said something that sounded like eggness" "ignis" the count said. "latin for fire. no, you don't need to say anything." "then why did you do it, then?" sophie asked. saint-germain grinned. "i just thought it sounded cool.

Campus ... brings back so many memories that I would ... have made.

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.

You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

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.

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.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

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.

Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San Francisco," Virginia answered, then paused. "Well,actually I do,and I don't like them. But I do like you,Billy, and I'm not going to allow you to end up as lunch for some raggedy lion-monster-thingy." "A sphinx," Machiavelli corrected her. He was standing at the bars again. "Mistress Dare," the Italian said carefully. "I absolutely applaud you for what you want to do for your friend. But I urge you to think of the bigger picture.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.

"What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?" she asked. "To believe that your children will be just like you."

I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a baby every day, if possible, because it nourishes me. It feeds my soul. Babies are drawn to me. And I think it's because they see me as one of them. But ... cooler and with my life put together a little bit more. If a baby were president, there would be no taxes. There would be no war. There would be no ... government, and ... things could get terrible. And actually probably it would be a better screenplay idea than a serious suggestion.

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

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

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.

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

When I said that I was king of forwards, you've got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

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.

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

He who retreats lives longer.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats." Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.

We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t.

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.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

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.

TMI? Too Much Information. It”s just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

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.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

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

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

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?

You need to play to win. But you also need to win ... to play.

When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

Here words can kill - literally.

There are some adventures not worth having.

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.

The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with each turn.Finally Prometheus turned and glared at the immortal. "If you do that one more time, I'm going to feed you to the Lotan myself." "And I will help," Niten added.

The two that are one, the one that is all!

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

I'll have an awesome blossom, EXTRA awesome.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.

My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many.

Leader. Ship. The word 'ship' is hidden inside the word 'leadership,' as its... derivation.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

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.

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.

It's always been Apple's goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that's still true from thirty years ago.

The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

We're all homos. Homo sapiens.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

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.

Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me-- no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it all back. I want it to be like, 'Hey who donated that hospital wing that's saving so many lives?' 'I don't know. It was anonymous.' 'Well, guess what. It was Michael Scott.' 'But how do you know? It was anonymous.' 'Because I'm him.

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.

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.

You are not living, you are surviving.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.

First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it.

Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.

Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to do, put a piece of fudge in a glass container (so they can see it) and let them know that if they accomplish their tasks, they can eat the fudge. You'll definitely get a reaction!

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

It's never too early for ice cream.