Except Quotes

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.