Thwackey Quotes & Sayings

Professional learning does not advance ... through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions — Douglass B. Reeves

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something. — Jess Walter

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one. — Douglas Coupland

I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata. — Gene Wolfe

All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, "And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon?" Then they exchange lies. — Gore Vidal

I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes. — Lea Michele

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back. — George R R Martin

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself. — Tony Shalhoub

Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life. — Oprah Winfrey