Except Quotes

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

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not – there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, ‘soul.’

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

It’s not that parents expect a lot from their kids, except, maybe 5-10 minutes of time in a day spent on something as simple as small talk.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

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

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

My whole career except for the NBA, I’ve been a winner. I want to get back to that.

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

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.

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.

The new generation doesn’t know anything about me except for what they saw in’ Easy Rider.’

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

I like to call the ethos I grew up with ‘Oklahoma values.’ But you’d be just as accurate if you said ‘American values.’ Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that’s American.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don’t take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters… nobody except me.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

Women were real box office stars in the ’40s, more so than men. People loved to see women’s films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

We don’t have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

I’ve seen pretty much all the ‘Peter Pan’s except for one of the further back ones where the boy had curly hair. I can’t remember. I really loved the 2003 version. I really loved that one because that was around the year I was born. That’s quite funny.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

Socrates didn’t care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you’d have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.

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.

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you’re three, except you can talk and read.

If you go on TV and say there’s no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

I know when I get down and discouraged, it’s hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.