E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.”
“Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.”
“Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.”
“Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.”
“Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at the beginning) when the loser decides he's going to lose. And after that, everything he does will be aimed at providing an explanation of why he will have lost. He may throw himself at the ball (so he will be able to say he's done his best against a superior opponent). He may dispute calls (so he will be able to say he's been robbed). He may swear at himself and throw his racket (so he can say it was apparent all along he wasn't in top form). His energies go not into winning but into producing an explanation, an excuse, a justification for losing.”
Source: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationship, Coming to Ourselves
“Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.”
“Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.”
“Except in Punjab and the NWFP, the central government’s Kashmir policy had little support in Sindh or Balochistan and even less in East Bengal. Instead of serving the people, civil servants and their allies in the army hoisted the political leaders with their Kashmir petard to become the veritable masters of the manor through autocratic and unconstitutional means.”
Source: The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
“Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.”
“Except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. The hero sees the value beyond what's possible. That's the nature of a hero. It kills him of course, ultimately. But it makes the whole struggle of humanity worthwhile. (p.77)”
Source: Grendel
“Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.”
“Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.”
“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.”
“Except Lady Elspeth wasn't and never would be either discreet or reserved. She spun around his family and around London as if she were some fae queen, without worry or fear. As if she'd been reared far from everything he understood. As if she'd come from another, wilder world.
Lady Elspeth burst into his awareness like the sun rising, bringing warmth and light, making his world iridescent with color.
And what was worse, he couldn't find it in himself to condemn her brilliance. He liked her. She argued with him, made him question his own opinions, made him feel. He was anything but dead in her presence.”
Source: No Ordinary Duchess
“Except Ma doesn't measure her life in years but in languages: Tayal and Yilan Creole in the indigo fields were she was born blue-assed and fish-eyed, Japanese during the war, Mandarin in her Nationalist-eaten city. Each language was worn outside her body, clasped around her throat like a collar.”
Source: Bestiary
“Except maybe that was the start of our failure to connect: me, failing to take the initiative. Me, being too cautious, lacking spontaneity or impulsivity. Me, reading things wrong and processing the world fifty times too slow.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don’t think.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.”
Source: The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
Source: Meditations
“Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.”
“Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.”
“Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.”
“Except that a lie was only easy on the surface; only easy, really, before it's spoken. Then it got hard, and heavy, and painful. It grew, transformed, drawing on nerves, loosening tendons, opening joints. It stole her breath, her sleep, her peace.”
Source: Children of Promise
“Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.”
“Except that deep down, I am completely heartbroken. It hurts to want it all, so many things that can't coexist within the same life.
I go on loving him.”
Source: People We Meet on Vacation
“Except that it was not fog but a body forming before her eyes out of a stream reflecting golden sunlight, a yellow checkered tablecloth, and the bones of two hundred goldfinches.
Donkey forgot how to breathe. She opened the door wider and in doing so somehow flipped the contents of the hot pan onto the porch planks. Now the figure was fully conjured, tipping back in the chair, as Donkey was forbidden to do. There was Rose Thorn with her bare brown feet resting on the table, legs crossed at her slender ankles, her hands clasped behind her head, shiny hair as windblown as feathers. All around her, in the mid-morning haze, golden light fingered upward. Rosie was as perfect as a perfect number with all her factors adding up to make the sum of her, and the whole day felt fresh and breezy.”
Source: The Waters
“Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and when we are fully aware in the present moment, when there is no past or future in our mind’s awareness, there is nothing to compare. There is only what is, as it is. The inner critic disappears.”
Source: Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food
“Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Except that today, oblivious to everyone, there is a hair standing tall inside his shorts: a single hair: long, black and shining. Sprouting out of nowhere, it stands rebelliously erect on his tiny barren orb, not thwarted by the force of the cloth of his underwear, announcing its eventual arrival with élan.”
Source: Manan
“Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.”
Source: The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings
“Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of the living God.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“Except there was no time for recriminations now, was there? Not with Will’s life and Elizabeth’s crown on the line.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Except those images weren’t exact captures of reality. No, the Camera Eye was also suffused with what photographers called the Golden Hour—the gilt-tinted hour following sunrise and preceding sunset, when the world was awash with russet rays and even the meanest streets were aglow as if in an Arthurian legend. Every moment spent with John was like that, reality beyond reality. Richer, realer, rawer than reality. These were the moments she remembered most.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch
“Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies”
“Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.”
Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader
“Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.”
“Except... what Jesus said was: "I will build My church," not you. The verse is not a prediction, it is a proclamation of the Lord of the Earth, who never once talked of "children in subjection." or "wives be grave... sober, faithful in all things." In fact, reading the New Testament from the Gospels into Paul's letters, is like watching the Wizard of Oz backwards -- going from a world of color and amazement, into a land of black-and-white with insane devout women trying to kill your dog. -- editorial 2014”
“Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.”
“Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.”
Source: Perfect
“Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.”
“Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.”
Source: Transformation of War
“Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.”
“Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good.”
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
“Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.”
“Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.”
“Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.”