Words matter. These are the best Except Quotes from famous people such as Tom Clancy, Alice Walker, John Updike, Mohammed Morsi, Franz Schubert, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
In general, hateful speech and opinions are protected under the Constitution, except to the extent they are deemed to incite violence or otherwise become illegal. But, at the same time, civilized society tends to frown upon it.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who’ve had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except… you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street… except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
I don’t know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he’s dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He’s this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
No one comes into my house except family.
There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don’t like the policy, that it’s done properly.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would’ve kept playing, except I realized that girls don’t watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.
The theory of cultural bias… is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can’t be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
I don’t really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don’t live my life thinking about dance.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
It doesn’t worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.
I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me – from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets – they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.
You can’t be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It’s like reverse sexism.
I have no bad habits, except overeating.
Except for the title ‘father,’ there is no title, including ‘vice president,’ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
It’s one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.
Today’s society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
We turn off the TV, video games and computer – except for homework – during the week. The TV’s reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that’s the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
Elvis couldn’t leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over – except when they are different.
I don’t particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that’s cool, but I don’t do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
The character is close to me, except that I haven’t lived through those situations, so it’s not completely me.
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
I don’t think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
The women’s rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past – except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
With the end of the cold war, all the ‘isms’ of the 20th century – Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism – have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he’s always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he’s important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O’Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn’t consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done – unable to play except from paper.
Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
In the fashion world if you’re successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It’s hard to walk away, except it wasn’t hard for me. I had my mind completely made up.
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
I’m too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don’t know.
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
There’s not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister’s wife.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they’ve been told they have lots in common.
Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I’m still having fun.
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
I’ve never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I’ve given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan – but not England.
I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he’s on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
You can’t control what the other athlete is going to do; you can’t control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly… or like somebody’s mother.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good – except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
The battle is all over except the ‘shouting’ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn’t.
I don’t drink alcohol at all except for special occasions. I definitely do think that it really takes a toll on your body over time, so it’s something that I really try to stay away from.
If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters… nobody except me.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
Sometimes I don’t even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don’t take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.
I don’t have any theories about acting, and I don’t think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn’t take himself too seriously, and shouldn’t try to make acting something it isn’t.
The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
I didn’t really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn’t think it was going to be that emotional. I don’t think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
I don’t have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I’ve never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense.
The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There’s hundreds of species within the genus. They’re on every continent except Antarctica, they’re in tropical rain forests, they’re in deserts, they’ve evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they’re capable of incredibly long-distance flights.
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can – must have some sort of responsibility, because they’re in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
I’ve always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don’t take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
I’ve seen pretty much all the ‘Peter Pan’s except for one of the further back ones where the boy had curly hair. I can’t remember. I really loved the 2003 version. I really loved that one because that was around the year I was born. That’s quite funny.
Well, they just don’t know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don’t really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president… except me.
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they’re getting this kind of money is because the studios don’t know what else to do. They don’t have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
I’ve always had a sick sense of humor, and I’ve always wanted that to permeate the music because I don’t take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I’m not God’s gift to anyone except my mom.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
I never think about poetry except when I’m writing it. I mean my poetry.
Saskatchewan is much like Texas – except it’s more friendly to the United States.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
I’m afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn’t that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we’re going to Moscow. We’re going to Italy. We’re going to Toronto. We’re going to New York.
Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
No matter where I’ve been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are – I’m not that familiar with their work – I just want to say, there’s always next year – except, you know, for Ray Romano .
Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
I had a paint pony called Half-Pint, and I rode her in Madison Square Garden, and that was my first big show. But my first real pony was this red pony called Chantal. He was absolutely amazing. He was a great pony, except he did spin me off a couple of times! I would blink, and then I would be on the floor.
I don’t have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There’s no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
A true heiress is never mean to anyone – except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
Running away from something doesn’t do anything except put distance.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry – except that he wasn’t as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.
When I’m on stage by myself, I don’t have to think about anything. I don’t have to worry about anything because I’m not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.
I can play in any position except goalkeeper.
God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean – except you won’t, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
I’m not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for ‘That Hagen Girl’, which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
On gym days, I don’t get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals – like Lassie.
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I’m pushing 40, I guess I look closer to… 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don’t have one of those.
Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
I’ve had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I’ve rushed. It’s not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
In my generation, except for a few people who’d gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn’t have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn’t go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
I promise you… nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
With these kinds of figures you can do whatever you want as an actor because there are no guidelines, there are no real vampires. Except in Los Angeles, where everybody’s a vampire, you know?
‘The Butler’ has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn’t understand them.
Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.
It’s sad when girls think they don’t have anything going on except being pretty.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.
I’ve never… when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools – except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it… which is the smarter way to do it.
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that’s been hanging around and killed our dog, we don’t have a care in the world.
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn’t do anything except just stand there.
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
I don’t like to be center of attention, except for when I want to be the center of attention.
We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they’re all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
It was just the next logical step from making succinct pop songs. What do you do after that? You make pop songs that are longer and more epic, that push the envelope. Imagine your favourite song, or something that you play over and over in the car, except that you don’t have to start it over as much.
What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
I’ve been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It’s interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I’m more appreciative of it now, and I don’t take it for granted.
Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today – except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
In the hip-hop world, Eazy-E was the personification of evil. He paid my hospital bill, about $60,000, but he made me pay him back, which is cool, except that I later found out that he paid the bill out of my share of a publishing deal he made for me.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
The truth is, I’d never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it’s astounding, but I don’t see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I’m told he used to wear ladies’ underwear, which is something I also do.
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
There are two Americas – separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator’s hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.
Basically, I’m afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
People’s attitudes about sex aren’t healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian except the church.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
None of the films I’ve done was designed for a mass audience, except for ‘Indiana Jones.’ Nobody in their right mind thought ‘American Graffiti’ or ‘Star Wars’ would work.
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
There is nothing permanent except change.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
My father never liked me or my sister, and he never liked our mother either, after an initial infatuation, and in fact, he never liked anyone at all after an hour or two, no, no one except a stooge.
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except ‘FX makes the show that I see on my computer.’
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Grissom is pretty asexual. He’s not that interested in anything other than work – except for Lady Heather. She’s the closest to getting his heart of anyone.
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
I’m still very much an atheist, except that I don’t necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that’s a weird thing that I’m struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls… it’s just stark terror.
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
Every music – except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose – is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
By virtue of my job, I’m traveling. You get to spend very little time with your family. We hardly get to meet each other except on the one odd day we really get to spend time, have dinner together. And that’s rare, and we cherish it.
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
I know black kids who don’t even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that’s enough. You wouldn’t look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
It’s not that parents expect a lot from their kids, except, maybe 5-10 minutes of time in a day spent on something as simple as small talk.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.
The czar was always sending us commands – you shall not do this and you shall not do that – till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
Most people don’t know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor… But I’ve performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he’s gay so that the landlord won’t evict him.
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Nothing exists except through language.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not – there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, ‘soul.’
There’s no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
As a person, I’m pretty much the same except that I’ve come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don’t get particularly friendly with new people at first go.
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or ‘the people,’ constitute the great majority of those affected.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.
We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That’s what I called it at the time – the ‘cubistic’ treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It’s taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it’s my job, I have no hobby – except watching TV and laying around the pool reading ‘U.S. Weekly.’ I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.
Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing. There is nothing to support the bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to somebody for more than you paid for it.
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor’s officers’ mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
I don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.
And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before – except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal – full of the things you love most.
Most companies are out to make money. They aren’t worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn’t enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn’t prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Environmentalists hate sprawl – except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
I don’t think he’s permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life.
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.
I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi.
You can’t get the visual thing on the record as much as you’d like to. We produced this album, and we’d never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
My wife is my first audience. She’s a tough lady, so I can’t say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
I always say, I can tell everybody else’s future except my own.
It was a woman’s bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
I don’t really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
‘Lemonade’ is made out of bubbling, fizzing, popping, and ‘Hard’ is made from metal and latex – they are sort of sculptures in this way. I synthesize all sounds except for vocals using raw waveforms and different synthesis methods as opposed to using samples.
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
I do everything right-handed – football, tennis, darts and golf – except for snooker.
Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.
White stockings I do not like. Why does anyone except a schoolgirl want to wear them? Nothing is more flattering to the legs than flesh color.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
My parents didn’t treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn’t do, except be unkind.
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don’t have much point in the orchestra.
Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
I wouldn’t change a thing – except my bank balance.
After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I’m probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
I think it’s never too late to start anything, except maybe being a ballerina.
Boxers, man, except when I have to get dressed up. Then it’s boxer-briefs. But never tighty-whities. Never. But dude! If they brought back Underoos? Dude, if they brought back Underoos, I would rock the Underoos. Like He-Man and Transformers and G.I. Joe and even like Dukes of Hazzard.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.
All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.
I’ve won a championship on every level except the NBA. It’s frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.
Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
I don’t know of many people who’ve done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link – which is actually a valid discovery.
I don’t like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
When is constancy required, except under persecution. Are not friends then proved? If they always yield, how can they ever succeed? They must, one time or other, make a stand.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
Right now, I’m very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
I’ve traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There’s not anything I’m scared of except my wife.
I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
There was a TV show that came on every week called the ‘Bowery Boys,’ and there was a character named Muggsy. The way I played basketball and the nickname stuck with me. No one calls me Tyrone except one person: Mom!
We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.
There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
With a disaster like global warming, it’s too late to worry about when it’s looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
I think ‘Easy Rider’ might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter – which is true – except for the pay!
It’s hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.
There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
I don’t think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the ’60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.
Growing up, I didn’t give my grandfather’s photography a second thought. I wasn’t involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn’t seen them.
There’s a guy at the record company who’s 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Except in very narrow cases, where there’s breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.
The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don’t think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Two kinds of ballplayers aren’t worth a darn: One that never does what he’s told, and one who does nothin’ except what he’s told.
I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‘I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.’
I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing ‘A Time to Kill.’ Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.
I’ve really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn’t have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
Really, we don’t know what to make of it except that we’re delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they’re still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.
I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn’t going to work.
There’s nothing wrong with the car except that it’s on fire.
Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
For me, growing up, I’d always been a part of team sports, except for when I was boxing.
But you’re never taught in schools – we don’t teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don’t teach anyone in college that government is the problem – except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.
Socrates didn’t care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Now I have to say I’m a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it’s a natural fact of life.
Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn’t set up that way. We’re organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Hollywood’s a very weird place. I think there’s less of everything except for attitude.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something – and the film was a failure.
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn’t think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.
College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
Nothing in life is promised except death.
Let’s make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years… Dayton isn’t working. Nobody – except diplomats and petty officials – believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.
I won’t talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I’m glad I’m out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
I guess I’m like any other concerned father, except that nobody else’s son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
I’ve never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you’re there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn’t be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you’re there.
I did what most writers do when something happens that’s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn’t know what else to do about it except write about it.
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows – except us – that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that’s filed everywhere else except under travel.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‘and’ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
The album is a definite departure. I haven’t written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
Children don’t have anywhere to go except cinema halls, malls and restaurants. All three aren’t ideal places for kids to grow up in.
The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can’t be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.
I think in every picture that I’ve ever made. Everything that I’ve done torments me. I really would like another chance except I’d be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
Actually, I don’t think there’s anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.
