Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
Ville Valo

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
James F. Cooper

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
J. Irwin Miller

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
Edward Forbes

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.
Stephen Collins

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
Charles Osgood

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.
Cliff Stearns

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

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
Francis Darwin

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
Walter Lord

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
Lytton Strachey

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller

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