"You find what you are best at and stick to it. I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."

-- Joan Armatrading

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.”
“Make something beautiful of your life.”
“That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.”
“A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.”
“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”

Source : James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.”
“I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.”
“I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.”

Source : Loretta Chase (2004). “Miss Wonderful”, p.249, Penguin

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