Except Quotes

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.