Rules Quotes
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Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?
Natalie Portman -
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
Evan Esar
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League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
Adrian Hadley -
Passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.
Nayantara Sahgal -
The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side industry invents the rules and the other side consumers is left to guess what they are.
Betty Furness -
It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great!
Mila Kunis -
Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
Susan Beth Pfeffer -
I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of dyed hair, safety pins and torn denim. Being a punk seemed like a new set of rules that I wasn't interested in having to follow.
Ezra Furman
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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
Anthony Trollope -
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Joshua Reynolds -
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
Nicolas Roeg -
To me, the rules are made for guys to score more. And I guess that's where the entertainment comes in.
Eric Snow -
We have a balanced set of conflict of interest rules that protect the integrity of NIH and its ability to provide the American public with an unbiased and trusted source of scientific and health information, while preserving our ability to recruit and retain world class scientists and staff.
Elias Zerhouni -
Driver had his own rules of war, and he tried to teach them to me. You know, when you clean a weapon the first rule is always clear the chamber. Not Driver. His first rule was always check to make sure it’s your weapon, so you don’t end up cleaning somebody else’s weapon.
Hal Moore
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Some rules have existed since the creation of the Earth. They do not need to come out of my mouth. They have always existed. There has always been a rule against using a Slip n’ Slide indoors. There has always been a rule against lying down in the mouth of a dead relative.
Bradley Sands -
I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.
Bo Ellis -
Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.
Ernest Shackleton -
For me, style is about forgetting the rules or creating new ones.
Elizabeth Heyert -
The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
Elena Ferrante
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I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.
Brad Furman -
Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules.
Paul Morrissey -
Our approach to governance is that communities can set appropriate standards around language for themselves. Many communities have rules around speech that are more restrictive than our own, and we fully support those rules.
Steve Huffman -
Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
Simon Travaglia