Except Quotes

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

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.