Except Quotes

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.

I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.