Except Quotes

4383 Except quotes by 2703 unique authors

CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal… — Neil Gaiman
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the… — Terry Pratchett
DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it. — Jennifer Donnelly
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles… — George Eliot
as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed… — Carl Hiaasen
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians… — Oscar Wilde
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. — Steven Pressfield
He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to… — Diane Setterfield
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. — George Orwell
What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't… — Bill Bryson
I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except… — Meg Cabot
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on… — Philip K. Dick
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. — Gary Paulsen
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa. — B.F. Skinner
Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing. — James Dashner
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and… — Bill McKibben
You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for… — Woodrow Wilson
He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that… — Derek Landy
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical… — Jon Stewart
a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a Doctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you… — John Connolly
Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched… — Alice Hoffman
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do… — Ben Jonson
[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit — Margery Williams
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed… — Martin Luther

Who Wrote These Except Quotes

2,703 authors contributed a total of 4,383 Except Quotes, led by these top contributors: