The Investment

Friday, June 13, 2014

THE FAMILY OF NEW ORLEANS

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

-GEORGE BURNS-

ROAD RAGE

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

-GEORGW CARLIN-

Thursday, June 12, 2014

THE SHIFT

"The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again."

-DENNIS C. BLAIR-

RIVER

"I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday."

-PETER STEELE-

SHREVEPORT

"Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict."

-HUNTER S. THOMPSON-

A COIT SUNRISE

"There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same."

-CARLOS SANTANA-

SWAMP DRIVE

"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

-B. C. FORBES-

"The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction."

-JONATHAN HAID-

ON CALL

"I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters."

-DELTA BURKE-

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."

-BENJAMIN DISRAEL-

"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."

-GENEVIEVE GORDER-

"The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset."

-CATHERINE OPIE-

CHURCH AVE.

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

-Benjamin Franklin-

THE REFLECTING DREAM

"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."

-ALBERT EINSTEIN-

BREAKING FROM THE HERD

"To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence."

-SUN TZU-

"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed."

-STEVE JOBS-

RUE DE BOURBON

"I love New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad."

-JAMES GANDOLFINI-

UNTITLED

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time."

-ORISON SWETT MARDEN-

ACROSS THE TRACKS

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

-DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER-

BUILDING BRIDGES

"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn."

-DAVID RUSSELL-

LOST IN CONSCIOUSNESS

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

-T. E. LAWRENCE-

CAJUN FRAME

"New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner."

-RUTA SEPETYS-