Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of…

— David Lange

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all…

— Brian Wildsmith

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their…

— Ai Weiwei

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real…

— Aviv Nevo

A pressure cooker will destroy all lectin except gluten.

— Steven Gundry

I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

— Jack Germond

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

— Tom Wolfe

My family didn't come from fame. No one was musical in my family except for me.

— Tiffany Darwish

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that…

— Marlee Matlin

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a…

— Andrzej Wajda

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers.

— Billy Bob Thornton

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs…

— Alice Walker