#except

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drink #except #experience #life #most

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#all things #alphabet #already #books #covered

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. ↗

— John Cleese

#anything #except #give #his #man

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#carry #color #deeply #every #everything

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

— Doug Coupland

#exists #god #like #much #out

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#agreement #anything #clinton #compromise #decided

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#competitive #ever #except #genuine #i

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

#be kind #dark #day #dress #enough

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#bring #certainly #changed #citizen #completely

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ↗

— Anatole France

#happy #ignorance #never #person #price