#except

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#chords #everything #except #few #guitar

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#close #completely #except #haven #i

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed. ↗

— Wolcott Gibbs

#anything #barns #bats #being #better

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win. ↗

— Seth Godin

#business #cases #exception #ideas #information

President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#concern #deserve #exceptional #his #home

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#except #held #home #long #most

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#blind #book #book tour #car #crazy

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. ↗

— Phil Hartman

#characters #could #except #i #impersonations

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

#enjoys #except #himself #never #noble