Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want,… — Christopher Owens
I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing… — ASAP Ferg
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in… — Al Franken
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what… — Neil Gaiman
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are… — Neil Gaiman
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. — Michael Gove
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people. — Al Green
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a… — Brian Greene
With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose… — Matt Groening
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules. — Gary Gygax
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period… — Gail Collins
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think… — Gail Collins
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. — Mason Cooley
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version. — Billy Corgan
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby
I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it. — Simon Cowell
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. — Simon Cowell
Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands… — Sloane Crosley
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere… — Evan Davis
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. — Claude Debussy

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