Break Them Quotes

130 quotes by 113 authors

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? — Leo Durocher
Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. — Mark Twain
There are no rules, but you break them at your peril. — Peter Guber
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our… — Robert Kennedy
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend… — Naomi Watts
Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them. — Zoe Wanamaker
Six feet under the stars is a place that doesn't exist. It's a place in your mind where everything and anything is possible. It's a… — Alex Gaskarth
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition. — Alexander McQueen
For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much… — Arthur Koestler
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. — Robert Graves
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither… — R. Scott Bakker
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. — James Branch Cabell
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. — Jack Foster
Learn all the rules... then break them. — Lea DeLaria
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads… — Victor Hugo
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love… — Anthony de Mello

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