I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the…

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