Except Perhaps Quotes
44 quotes by 40 authors
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
— Pearl Bailey
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...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . .…
— Melvin Belli
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In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs,…
— Jean Dubuffet
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I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as recorded by my band Twisted Sister. There is almost nothing…
— Dee Snider
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Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
— Timothy Radcliffe
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I…
— Douglas Sirk
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received;…
— Lewis Hyde
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I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so…
— Ron Luciano
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Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
— Alan Cooper
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I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.
— Joel McCrea
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Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate…
— Derek Bok
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch…
— Kevin Spacey
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My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic…
— Stephanie Mills
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There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever…
— Will Rogers
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There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated…
— Eugene Wigner
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Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Except Perhaps Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 44 Except Perhaps Quotes, led by these top contributors: