...carved dolls stick to the rules.

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own,…

— Margaret Atwood

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

— Randy Moss

I think with black tie, you can't really do too much. I think you have to pretty much stick to the rules on that.

— Nick Wooster

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules.

— Gwen Ifill

“He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap.”

— Ken Kesey

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing…

— Mark Shand

“The soul’s hand has an eye. *Carved on a rain-worn stone.* Welling-in-the-Mountains.”

— Betsy James

“What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.”

— Vietnamese

“You’re not like a relative of hers or something?” I cocked my head. “No. Though she does carry my name.” He frowned. I could…

— Karina Halle

“The Gods we worship write their names on our faces.” The face is carved from within by invisible tools; our thoughts, our moods, our…

— Orison Swett Marden

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship,…

— Nneka

I carved your name into this bullet so that everyone would know that you were the last thing going through my head.

— Anonymous

“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow…

— Roshani Chokshi

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo