M.M. Scott Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You are not living, you are surviving.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

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

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

I'll have an awesome blossom, EXTRA awesome.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

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

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

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

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

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

There are some adventures not worth having.

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.

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

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

Coffee is the great incentivizer in the office.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Here words can kill - literally.

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

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

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

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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