You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.
It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.
I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.
I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.
My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.
Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.
I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
My first time in Germany. We started off in Heidelberg, which is this quaint, nice town. The Germans, they shoot just like the Americans, except for, if it's a 10-hour day, they're leaving at 5. You don't go to 5:30, 6, 7. No. And then we had a fest for everything.
