308 Quotes by Michael Scott
"The central business area or downtown is roughly 12 blocks in size. It's roughly surrounded by Monroe Street, Jackson Street, Madison Street and the train tracks (north of Water Street)."
"My goal is to turn the lives around for some youths. Hopefully, they can see a different side of the Police Department. Hopefully, they can see that we're human, too, and we're there for the kids and we're there for the community."
"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."
"All of that, I think, ought to sound like common sense. It's pretty reasonable. But what we've found is that in the tens of thousands of police departments across the country, that's a slight sort of shift in thinking. Most police departments don't have all the skills to do that."
"But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician."
"A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age."
"We looked at the county as part of the downtown. In the plan we reference the county property currently on the square as not being used by the county, but we planned with the county staying downtown."
"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."