Christenen Vasten Quotes & Sayings

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. — Robert Orben

Amal, you look stunned," said Mrs. Melchor. "Have you been struck by lightning between classes?"
"Yes," she said. "The lightning of ignorance."
Mrs. Melchor raised her eyebrows. — Naomi Shihab Nye

We all can be defeated; to cope with this eternal fact opens great ways for the future glories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money. — David Letterman

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences. — Joshua Mohr

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey

Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose. — Ann Landers

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms. — Arthur Rimbaud

I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard. — Richard Platt

Angel?"
Yeah?" she looked up, all blue-eyed innocence.
I felt stupid, but ... "Can Total, um, talk?"
Uh-huh," Angel said casually, squeezing water out of her hair.
I stared at her. "He talks. Total talks, and you didn't tell me?"
Well ... " Angel looked for him, saw he was pretty far away, and lowered her voice. "Don't tell him I said this, but he's actually not that interesting. — James Patterson

Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the porch and flung his arms out and said, "Someday kids, all this will be yours." But his knuckles hit the porch supports. Even the porch wasn't that big. — Lorrie Moore

Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth - the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them? — Sarah Grimm

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.' — Trey Parker