Except Quotes

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

Boxers, man, except when I have to get dressed up. Then it's boxer-briefs. But never tighty-whities. Never. But dude! If they brought back Underoos? Dude, if they brought back Underoos, I would rock the Underoos. Like He-Man and Transformers and G.I. Joe and even like Dukes of Hazzard.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.