Irrawaddy Quotes

#1. My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.

Jamie Cullum

#2. The earliest portions to shrink are generally the frontal lobes, which govern judgment and planning, and the hippocampus, where memory is organized. As a consequence, memory and the ability to gather and weigh multiple ideas - to multitask - peaks in midlife and then gradually declines.

Atul Gawande

#3. There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

LeBron James

#4. Some animals carry their shelter wherever they go. Some humans are just the same.

Susan Cain

#5. Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Wassily Kandinsky

#6. Betty had never been skinny and she was never really fat. She still had a nice shape, but it was well upholstered now and her new dress made the best of it.

Anita Diamant

#7. That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.

Louis O. Kelso

#8. He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way."~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#9. I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.

Chuck Close

#10. All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

Marat Safin

#11. Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

Mickey Rourke

#12. A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military

Willie Nelson

#13. Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

Jon Bon Jovi