Except Quotes

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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.

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.