What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Evelyn Waugh

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
Robert Capa

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
Garry Shandling

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
Jhonen Vasquez

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
Salma Hayek

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Theodor Adorno

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Andre Gide

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Bill Shankly

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
Sid Vicious

We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.
Sid Vicious

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Stendhal

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Lord Chesterfield

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Joseph Heller