Rules Quotes

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I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do… — Greil Marcus
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It… — Hunter S. Thompson
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They… — Neal Stephenson
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events — David Brin
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all… — Roy Lichtenstein
The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his… — Ernst Junger
It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by… — William Penn
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution… — Lawrence Lessig
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules. — C.S. Lewis
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. — C.S. Lewis
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… — Bill Bryson
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every… — Henry David Thoreau
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. — Marvin Bell
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory. — Ivan Doig
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive… — Ludwig von Mises
It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a… — St. Vincent
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with… — Byron Dorgan
Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the… — Donald Hall

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