#exception

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer. ↗

— James Ellroy

#books #cops #every #exception #killer

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

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

— James Jeans

#because #carbon #certain #exceptional #exists

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

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one! ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#exceptions #fool #fools #idiot #idiots

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#remembering #visual #art

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#exception #exceptional #geniuses #goodness #honor