#except

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage. ↗

— John Osborne

#dies #except #heaven #live #love

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

— Francis Parkman

#defensive #except #fact #fort #in fact

I enjoyed the crew. The best part about 'The X-Files' has been the crew. This crew is an exceptional family and to go to work with a bunch of people that you really like is great. They're all the best of the best and they really try to do the best job they can. I'll miss that. ↗

— Robert Patrick

#been #best #best part #bunch #crew

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#being #capable #character #completely #continue

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told. ↗

— Bum Phillips

#darn #does #except #kinds #never

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #being pretty #except #going #pretty

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#back #dugout #except #get #good

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#except #had #little #perform #really

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american #american society #except #farm #felt