Top 150 Michael Scott Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 3

51. “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

52. “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

53. “Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

55. “Love is the water of life, drink deeply.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

59. “The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.”

— Michael Scott

60. “Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.”

— Michael Scott

61. “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.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

63. “The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening;.”

— Michael Scott

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

69. “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!”

— Michael Scott

70. “It is St. Patrick’s Day. And here in Scranton, that is a huge deal. It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas.”

— Michael Scott

71. “Here words can kill – literally.”

— Michael Scott

72. “The two that are one, the one that is all!”

— Michael Scott

73. “I’m always writing – its what I like to do. But when I’m not writing, I’m reading.”

— Michael Scott

74. “I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I’m writing. So, every book I write has its own “soundtrack.””

— Michael Scott

75. “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

76. “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”

— Michael Scott

77. “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.”

— Michael Scott

78. “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.”

— Michael Scott

79. “I never base characters on real people – you can get into so much trouble that way!”

— Michael Scott

80. “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?”

— Michael Scott

81. “There are some adventures not worth having.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

83. “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.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

86. “People are dying who haven’t had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.”

— Michael Scott

87. “You’re saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

89. “When you’ve lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

91. “That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

97. “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.”

— Michael Scott

98. “Middle school’s amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.”

— Michael Scott

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

— Michael Scott

100. “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.”

— Michael Scott