#except

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. ↗

— Brian May

#any #except #first #never #nine

I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show. ↗

— Matthew McGrory

#could #done #except #i #left

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#anything #chubby #ever #except #good

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#any #anybody #anything #except #ford

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#century #cold #cold war #communism #democracy

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#backwards #cannot #election #even #except

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#doing #ever #every #exception #i

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#ban #except #life #mother #save

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #drain #else #except #god