The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Barry Goldwater

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
Dean Koontz

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
Calvin Klein

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
Steve Irwin

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
Babe Ruth

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
Marie Curie

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
Paris Hilton

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West

Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West

Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Charles Baudelaire