I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
Nothing exists except through language.
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.
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.
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
