#except

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#ancestors #black #came #except #family

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#barnes #decorate #exceptions #faces #few

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ↗

— Olin Miller

#earning #exception #hardest #living #possible

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#exception #himself #lie #lies #lying

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. ↗

— Al Pacino

#bit #dose #everybody #except #full

I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that. ↗

— Sean Patrick Thomas

#any #aspire #broadway #cast #developing

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#college #effect #except #flunked #gone

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#companions #exception #greatest #himself #home

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#except #guard #heavy #him #hotel