Except Quotes
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
Joan Didion
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Bernard Baruch
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
Nate Silver
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.
Harold Brodkey
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Mary Austin
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Julio Cortazar
The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.
Theodor Herzl
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Lewis H. Lapham
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
Craig Ferguson
I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
Emmanuelle Beart
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.
Paul Taylor
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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.
Doug Coupland
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.
Gabriel Mann
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Tom Clancy
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.
Eddie Van Halen
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
Andrew Jackson
Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.
Kirby Puckett
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
Brian Ferneyhough
Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
Steven Tyler
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
Sheri S. Tepper
I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.
John Bolton