Except Quotes

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

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.

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 never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.