#except

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. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#dying #earth #except #god #green

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. ↗

— William Hogarth

#except #judge #pictures #profession #those

I didn't aim at anything except good music. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#anything #except #good #good music #i

Now all my teachers are dead except silence. ↗

— W. S. Merwin

#except #now #silence #teachers

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. ↗

— Sam Kinison

#except #going #like #ozzy

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#billion #came #coast #except #federal

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish. ↗

— Denis Leary

#away #becomes #been #believes #bill

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. ↗

— David Livingstone

#christ #except #i #kingdom #may

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. ↗

— Henry Miller

#communication #except #few #good #great

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#defensive #except #fact #fort #in fact