Michael Scott Quotes - Page 2

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!

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

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.

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

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

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

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

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

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

You are not living, you are surviving.

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

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