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

A lie cannot live except the truth.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

I’m not sure whay I’ve been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me – from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets – they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.

There is nothing permanent except time.

These days, it’s really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

I don’t go to the doctor except when I’m very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

I don’t like recording studios – except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d’honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don’t like Sarkozy, but that’s ridiculous. I refused because I don’t like decorations – except on women.

Nothing exists except moments and time; everything else is opinion.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Thank you… Apple, for adding a camera to the iPod Nano. Now it’s just like the iPhone except it can’t make calls. So basically, it’s just like the iPhone.

I’ve heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we’re the real nitty-gritty actors who’re in a town where being onstage doesn’t necessarily get you anything except your craft.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That’s...

Nothing is forever. Except time.

I just finished touring, and I’m on a detox thing. It’s a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I...

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

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

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

There are no rules except time.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years...

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an...

I don’t like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

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.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

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

All parts of the human body get tired eventually – except the tongue.

I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn’t know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do,...

Look at ‘American Idol,’ which I don’t look at. Those winners haven’t become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can’t aim to be a household name. You just have...

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make...

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

Everything makes me nervous – except making films.

As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I’m all of the above, except I’ve refrained from bouncing off the walls.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

I’ll play first, third, left. I’ll play anywhere – except Philadelphia.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.