Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
It's always too early to quit.
You never know what motivates you.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Only the educated are free.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.