#except

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant. ↗

— William Scranton

#basement #building #down #except #floor

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#any #books #censorship #completeness #ends

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. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#brackets #each #either #enclosing #except

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

#different #except #over #people #same

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

— Richard Ford

#done #ever #except #i #married

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#achievements #after #city #continued #except

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#anyone #dies #except #happy #i

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

— Dana Hill

#i #normal #size

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. ↗

— Richie Allen

#except #first #i #left #philadelphia

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. ↗

— James Jeans

#because #carbon #certain #exceptional #exists