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.
