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!
