I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I have to juggle the roles of playing the concertmaster; sometimes I drop the violin and wave my arms.
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
I can resist everything except temptation.
First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
I will complete my second term, but I have made no decision as to my plans after Congress except that I will continue in public service, including as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.
Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.
