#except

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#could #except #find #i #much

In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#away #completely #every #everyone #except

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#child #childhood #daughter #except #garland

We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us, that we will experience it, that we — that is, I alone — will be the ones to see it. We always aspire, I suppose, to being the chosen ones, and it is unlikely otherwise that we would be prepared to live out the entire course of an entire life, which, however short or long, gradually gets the better of us. ↗

— Javier Marías

#exceptionalism #optimism #experience

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#except #i #much #never #pictures

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful. ↗

— Liz Smith

#evidence #except #those #weddings #wonderful

I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted. ↗

— John Stamos

#been #being #cover #dealing #entertainment

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#friendly #like #more #much #saskatchewan

It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#back #couple #down #exactly #exception

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#except #i #medium #poetry #suck