Except Quotes

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.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.