Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

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

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I don't think I've ever had a conversation with a comedian who stole except for when it's been in anger.

Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything - except anger.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

I had a paint pony called Half-Pint, and I rode her in Madison Square Garden, and that was my first big show. But my first real pony was this red pony called Chantal. He was absolutely amazing. He was a great pony, except he did spin me off a couple of times! I would blink, and then I would be on the floor.

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.