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Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

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.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

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.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

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.

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.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?