#except

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. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#america #because #came #clothes #community

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy. ↗

— Joel McHale

#except #had #i #intention #maybe

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#exceptionally #i #i think #perceptive #smart

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#birds #except #give #joy #make

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#compose #except #had #helped #himself

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that. ↗

— George Michael

#always #being #exception #i #loved

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

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things. ↗