Except Quotes

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

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

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

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.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

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.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.