Except Quotes

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

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.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

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.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.