Quote

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

Michael Scott

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Scott
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 29
Actor
Clergyman
Executive Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Actor
Television Producer
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Ken Tremendous
Cezanne
Contentious
Selling
Idea
Seems
Ideas

More quotes by Michael Scott

Image
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
Image
Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.
Michael Scott
Image
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
Image
Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me-- no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.
Michael Scott
Image
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.
Michael Scott
Image
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.
Michael Scott
Image
There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.
Michael Scott
Image
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.
Michael Scott
Image
Love is the water of life, drink deeply.
Michael Scott
Image
it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.
Michael Scott
Image
The day we stop learning is the day we die.
Michael Scott
Image
A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.
Michael Scott
Image
At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.
Michael Scott
Image
It's never too early for ice cream.
Michael Scott
Image
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 cro
Michael Scott
Image
I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!
Michael Scott
Image
But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.
Michael Scott
Image
The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.
Michael Scott
Image
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
Image
Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.
Michael Scott