#exception

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#carolina #country #eastern #exception #i

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#bush #clinton #clinton administration #creating #eventually

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#another #exception #fax #internet #just

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. ↗

— Craig Charles

#british #collapse #else #exceptional #fans

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#chance #done #exception #expressed #gratitude

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bad idea #california #could #exceptionally #idea

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#discovery #exceptions #profundity #rules #sole

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#because #exception #for the people #free #friends

We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#all night #because #both #breath #could

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#always #begin #commercial #commercial world #directors