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.
