Break Them Quotes

130 quotes by 106 authors

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. — Ralph Chaplin
Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste. — George Shearing
You've got to know the rules to break them. — Alexander McQueen
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. — Anthony de Mello
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease… — Johann Most
Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind… — Tom Waits
In the times in which we live it is far too restricting to say that art can only be found in art galleries and not… — Ken Done
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break… — Robert A. Heinlein
When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break… — Jaggi Vasudev
Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them. — Kyle Maynard
When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that… — Michael Shannon
They that make laws must not break them. — John Ray
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on… — Roger McGuinn
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for… — J D Salinger
I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that… — Zack Snyder
People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever… — Christian Marclay
Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule… — Julian Baggini
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. — Barbara Deming

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