Michael Scott Quotations

We require a 24-foot fire lane and the first driveway was not close enough to the building to provide proper access.

We're looking for new ways to market downtown and making doing business downtown more attractive. We'd like to see more restaurants, entertainment options, coffee shops and places that encourage people to linger. We need a mixture you won't find in a typical shopping center.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

My goal is to turn the lives around for some youths. Hopefully, they can see a different side of the Police Department. Hopefully, they can see that we're human, too, and we're there for the kids and we're there for the community.

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

If the cameras stopped rolling today, their hearts would still be over there.

We looked at the county as part of the downtown. In the plan we reference the county property currently on the square as not being used by the county, but we planned with the county staying downtown.

It ate my butt up. On the year, we shoot 68 or 69 percent. You expect those to go in, especially when we have the right guys going to the line.

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.

We have to hit our outside shots. To dig ourselves that deep of a hole makes it tough to get out.

Why couldn't he? It's the luck of the draw. The judge loves you or not.

You cannot take the second-slowest reproducing species in North America, manage it on a knife-edge and expect that in the long term it will survive. Nature will always throw you a curve.

We just don't know how this corner lot will be developed. We can't force them to build a driveway before a development comes in. This isn't a public thoroughfare. This is essentially a driveway. When the development comes in, they have a choice as to how they align the drive.

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.

Our employees are very committed to the communities they serve and on their behalf, I want to sincerely thank our customers for their generosity. Food banks meet a critical need and we are pleased to help through this initiative.

They're happy dogs, people like to see them. They're firehouse dogs, they're high profile.

It is the sentence of this court that you be taken from this court to a prison and then to a place of execution where you will be hanged,

On a ten-hour bus ride, or in your hotel room, you have a chance to grow very, very deep and strong with the Lord.

Nothing will be happening most of the time. Multiply that by several cameras with nothing happening, all the time. It's very difficult for any human being to be vigilant.

That's Danny. You almost get used to it because he's such a force down low.

In a lot of the areas, it's not like you fly into the big city and take a taxicab to the local church or whatever. They have to trek to the middle of a jungle or across the desert on a camel. There is a fair amount rigorous effort to get where they are going.

I know this middle site is highly sought after. I've had several inquiries about it.

(I'm) probably not as careful as I should be.

I'm seeing double the speed at the same range.

I certainly hope that we do not waste our resources, our staff time or anything dealing with such a trivial issue.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

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.

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.

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.

The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.

That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.

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.

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

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

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

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.

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.

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

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.

The credibility of any item in finance is inversely proportionate to the amount of publicity it receives.

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.

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

The secret to writing is writing. Lots of people I know talk about writing. They will tell me about the book they are going to write, or are thinking about writing, or may write some day in the future. And I know they will never do it. If someone is serious about writing, then they will sit down every day and put some words down on paper.

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

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.

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

Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.

Distance makes everything beautiful" - Virginia Dare

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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

There are some adventures not worth having.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

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

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.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

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

You are not living, you are surviving.

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.

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.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

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.

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

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

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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

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

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.

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

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