#exception

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

— Isaac Stern

#carnegie #carnegie hall #enhances #everywhere #exception

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#fame #humanity #oblivion #rule

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#backs #easy #exception #him #honors

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#although #american #american history #attention #body

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#exception #i #in my opinion #lot #me

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. ↗

— James Jeans

#because #carbon #certain #exceptional #exists

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#battle #church #creek #disbanded #exception

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

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#calamity #called #clearly #considered #death