#exception

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#death #exception #love #mine #most

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#evolution #exceptions #here #i #life

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#entire #entire universe #exception #others #remember

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

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

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#adult #anything #authors #because #before

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#children #different #each #effect #even

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. ↗

— William Henry Hudson

#exception #existence #monkeys #most #playful

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#among #commonly #dangerous #even #exceptions