#except

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #almost #destroy #disagreeable

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#babies #bringing #campaigns #except #i

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. ↗

— Ovid

#endows #except #go #hearts #i

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#changes #completely #development #except #factual

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#few #first #given #i #i write

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#bigger #book #books #collection #difference

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #death #death and taxes #except #nothing

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#ballistic #been #even #except #get

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#carnegie #carnegie hall #enhances #everywhere #exception