Prince Quotes

A strong spirit transcends rules.

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• There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Rules

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Teacher

• When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Song
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Help
  • Rules
  • Fast

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Enough
  • Rules
  • Often

• The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Rules
  • Rule
  • Only

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Company
  • Rules

• I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Door
  • Working
  • Rules

• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Spirit

• I like to play by my own rules.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Play
  • Like
  • Rules

• My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Stage

• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  

  Tacitus
  • Fall
  • Service
  • Chance

• When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn't know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?

  

  Carly Craig
  • Relationship
  • Day
  • Rules

• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• I said some of the boys from the Caribbean area don't know the rules quite so well.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Boys
  • Rules
  • Caribbean

• God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

  

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
  • Wisdom
  • Understanding
  • Spirit

• In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Enemy
  • Spirit
  • Story

• There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Characters
  • Hearts

• Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Restrictions

• A strong spirit transcends rules.

  

  Prince
  • Spirit
  • Rules