Except Quotes

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.