You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.
It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.
We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.
I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.
One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes giving interviews next to Ben Kingsley. I'm nowhere near cynical or jaded enough not to be incredibly thrilled by that.
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
I've written many love songs for Gerard. But it's never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low-level for experienced foodies, or don't offer enough hands-on training.
I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.
The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down.
I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
