Except Quotes

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.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!