After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema…

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I…

— Nicolas Provost

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry…

— N.D. Wilson

We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.

— John Cage

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

— Tom Colicchio

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the…

— Rick Wakeman

“Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If never a rule broken is never any fun had.”

— Aurora

“Life is a game with breaking the rules.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

— Mary Oliver

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules…

— Mario Cuomo

“the basic rules of serious futurology are (a) look for the large trends and analyze how they work, (b) construct models to suggest how…

— David Christian

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a…

— Len Wein

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

— W. Edwards Deming

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's…

— William Davis

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto…

— Stevie Jackson