Exception Quotes

• People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity - and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • People
  • Exception
  • Johnny Depp

• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Littles

• People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

  

  Geraldine Jewsbury
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Fancy

• Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

  

  William Saroyan
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Famous

• Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

  

  Cesare Lombroso
  • Men
  • Speak
  • Honor

• If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

  

  Alex Hirsch
  • Remember
  • Animation
  • Exception

• My love for you is not plain But it does not add up I love you not Yes, I have never revealed it to anyone Nor will I ever do so You are no exception either Yes, I will keep my words to me But, I have no control over my eyes That might blab out And lead you to take My love is for you only Though I'm not to say so.

  

  Akram Khan
  • Love
  • Control
  • Exception

• The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may delude our short-sighted judgments, never fail to vindicate their supremacy and immutability.

  

  William Cabell Rives
  • Liberty
  • Judgment
  • Divine

• Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Water
  • Fool
  • Despair

• I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Together

• I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Write
  • Characters
  • Good Girl

• Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

  

  David Lubar
  • Anybody
  • Exception
  • Likes

• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Audience

• Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Empathy
  • Exception
  • Appropriate

• From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Genius
  • Equality
  • Point

• The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Moments

• The exception tests the rule.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Tests
  • Exception

• As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Travel
  • Exception
  • Oscars

• I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Natural
  • Wealth
  • Cases

• This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Belief
  • Deserve
  • Exception

• We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Car
  • Pleasure
  • Businessman

• Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.

  

  David "Doc" Searls
  • Funny
  • Sports
  • Journalism

• If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

  

  Steven Shainberg
  • Happen
  • Script
  • Exception

• To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

  

  David Bowie
  • Done
  • Couple
  • Musician

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