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.
