Rules Quotes

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Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules.… — Jean Baudrillard
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. — Mason Cooley
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally… — Walt Whitman
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. — Blaise Pascal
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color?… — Joe Garagiola
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules… — Iris Murdoch
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.… — Anne Stevenson
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the… — Alberto Manguel
All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression. — Milan Kundera
The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't… — Paula Poundstone
You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules… — Robert M. Pirsig
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will… — Michael Crichton
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with… — William O. Douglas
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way… — George Matthew Adams
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and… — Lewis Thomas
Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between… — Marty Feldman
When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the… — David Chase
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

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