If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
Mushy reviews are a breach of faith
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.