Except Quotes

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.