Quotes from Michael Scott

Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Y cuando dudes, Josh —jadeó—, sigue tu corazón. Las palabras pueden ser falsas y las imágenes y sonidos pueden manipularse. Pero esto… —dijo señalando el pecho de Josh—, siempre te dirá la verdad.

Entonces sabrás que Albert Einstein aseguraba que la imaginación era más importante que el conocimiento, puesto que este último está limitado a lo que sabemos mientras que la imaginación abarca un mundo aún por descubrir y comprender.

These poor beasts are driven solely by their need to survive and to feed. It is their nature, and their nature has made them predictable. But man, on the other hand, has the capacity to change his nature. Man is the only animal that can destroy the world. Beasts live only in the present, but humans have the capacity to live for the future, to lay down plans for their children and grandchildren, plans that can take years, decades, even centuries, to mature.

Put in the post office at the corner of Signal Street and Ojai Avenue in Ojai." In the backseat, Scatty stirred. "Oh, not Ojai. Please tell me we're not going there.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky

hate is the most useless of all emotions.

Perhaps it is the most cunning and dangerous of all villians," Dagon said quietly. "A Humani

Wat nu weer?... Millennia lang zie ik niemand en nu lijk ik opeens weer populair te zijn. - Mars Ultor

is that most dangerous of foes: he is absolutely confident that what he is doing is right.

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 thinks and acts.

Ik heb wel de lotan.' Machiavelli en Billy keken hem wezenloos aan. 'Dé lotan,' zei Nereus. De twee onsterfelijken schudden hun hoofd. 'Ik heb geen idee wat dat is,' bekende Machiavelli.

I've seen men go to their deaths laughing, I've seen others wail and cry. They all died in the end, but those who were laughing seemed to have an easier time of it.

Dee kromp in elkaar en probeerde zich zo klein mogelijk te maken. 'Meesters,' zei hij. 'Vergeef me.' Het paar negeerde hem. Ze staarden naar de tweeling. 'Sophie,' zei de man. 'Josh,' zei de vrouw. 'Mam... pap,' zei de tweeling in koor. Het paar maakte een buiging. 'Hier heten we Isis en Osiris. Welkom in Danu Talis, kinderen. Welkom thuis.

the worst thing about prison was the dementors

Gracias. —¿Por qué? —Por regalarme un día más. —No lo hice por ti —reconoció con una sonrisa—, lo hice por motivos puramente egoístas. —El Alquimista arqueó las cejas a modo de pregunta silenciosa—. Lo hice por mí. No estaba dispuesta a vivir un día sin ti.

I learned a spell many years ago from an Inuit shaman. It changes the consistency of running water, turning it to something like thick sticky mud. Effectively, it allows you to walk on water. Inuits use it when they're hunting polar bears out on ice floes. I wanted to see if it worked on warm salt water.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

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.

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.

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

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.