Exceptionally Quotes (page 63)

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• library
• opens
• openings

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. John F. Kennedy

• sales
• shine
• different

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined. Beverly Cleary

• different
• exception
• differing

Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before. Bill Bryson

• children
• school
• stupid

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. Mark Haddon

• dog
• broken
• faith

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog Konrad Lorenz

• wisdom
• him
• manly

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom. George Eliot

• people
• kindness
• great

Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous. Philip Larkin

• giving
• bear
• saying

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins Charles de Lint

• blessed
• moments
• may

It may be that there is no place for any of us. Except we know there is somewhere; and if we found it, but lived there only a moment, we could count ourselves blessed. Truman Capote

• curiosity
• knowing
• know

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Oscar Wilde

• literature
• exceptions
• line

Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines. Raymond Chandler

• words
• exceptional
• exception

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. Stephen King

• respect
• exercise
• world

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Oscar Wilde

• biology
• humanity
• perfect

Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed. Kurt Vonnegut

• time
• giving
• value

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity. David Livingstone