#except

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#call #except #getting #hard #hard work

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time. ↗

— Bob Dole

#except #from time to time #intent #maybe #oh

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#amsterdam #everybody #except #got #much

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#chords #everything #except #few #guitar

President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#concern #deserve #exceptional #his #home

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#except #held #home #long #most

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#blind #book #book tour #car #crazy

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. ↗

— Felix Klein

#confused #countless #curve #enough #everyone

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#anyone #bad #because #cannot #claims

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball. ↗

— Al Lopez

#early #except #hand #hit #hope