Except Quotes

I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.