Except Quotes

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.