Best Except Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?”

“I still believe in hearing all sides, except the crazy violent side.”

“You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.”

“My kitchen is an imitation, really, of my mum's, except for the big American fridge.”

“A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.”

“Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.”

“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.”

“Joining 'Hee Haw' was one of of the best moves I ever made. Until then I had no television exposure except the talk shows.”

“I love getting up in the morning with nothing else to do except write.”

“My family didn't come from fame. No one was musical in my family except for me.”

“Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.”

“In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.”

“And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.”

“I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.”

“Every group has its time. Nobody reigns forever, except Michael Jackson. So, you've gotta be ready for that - and be wise about what you're doing.”

“Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.”

“It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.”

“Everyone in Iran has wrestled, except for me, I never wrestled in Iran for some reason.”

“I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.”

“Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.”

“Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.”

“I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.”

“I love the Opry and I'm there almost every week except when I am on the road.”

“I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.”

“I guess my whole thing has always been that nobody knows you except for yourself and nobody knows your story except for you and the people who you care about.”

“It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.”

“I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.”

“When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.”

“You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.”

“I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.”

“There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.”

“I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.”

“When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.”

“I literally practiced every day except on the weekends.”

“I began as a striker, then became a holding midfielder, and now I'm a centre-half. I've done everything except play in goal.”

“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”

“I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.”

“I've succeeded at everything except my life.”

“Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.”

“I think I've opened up my mind to all foods, except tinned tuna. I can't stand that. I will not go near it; the smell is unbearable.”

“Motherhood is a beautiful, wonderful gift... except when it's not.”

“My passion's always been about helping the youth, and this is no different, except the issue are 21, 22, 23 years old and maybe even older than that, but they're very young in MMA World.”

“Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.”

“Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.”

“The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.”

“The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.”

“I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.”

“As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.”

“Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.”

“When I'm alone, there is nothing else in my head except football.”

“Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?”

“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”

“Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.”

“If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.”

“To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .”

“Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.”

“Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.”

“I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.”

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

“Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.”

“When I give back to the community I don't do it for anything except because I want to give back to the community.”

“I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.”

“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.”

“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”

“Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.”

“I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em.”

“People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.”

“I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'”

“I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.”

“We've now found CTE in former NFL players who played every position except kicker.”

“All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.”

“Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.”

“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”

“I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me.”

“We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.”

“The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.”

“I'm in L.A., but I don't do L.A. things except go to meetings.”

“One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.”

“People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.”

“Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.”

“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?”

“I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.”

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

“It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.”

“No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.”

“Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional.”

“It's me and my team against the world. I'm not training with no other squads. I may stop in and say what's up to some people that I think are really cool - shout out to those boys out there at RVCA, except Luke Rockhold.”

“Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.”

“Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.”

“Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.”

“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”

“Simon and I are good pals. We're friends except when we walk out on 'The X Factor,' he always has a go at me. And I never expect it. We're good friends behind the scenes, we do Westlife together, we are friends.”

“I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.”

“No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.”

“I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.”

“There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.”

“I don't know many footballers except Maradona and Messi.”

“I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.”

“I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.”

“People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.”