Quotes on Rules

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Author: Gary Ackerman

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Author: Ansel Adams

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

Author: Josef Albers

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Author: Emanuel Ax

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Author: Leslie Banks

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Author: Richard Branson

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Author: Jackson Browne

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Author: Maria Callas

There are no rules to writing a song.

Author: Randy Castillo

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

Author: Joel Coen

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

Author: Kieran Culkin

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Author: Jacques Derrida

I like breaking the rules.

Author: Lexa Doig

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Author: Leo Durocher

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

Author: Andrew Eldritch

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Author: T. Eliot

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Author: Martin Fischer

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 you can do and what you can't do.

Author: Neil Gaiman

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

Author: Daniel Greenberg

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

Author: Gary Gygax

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Author: Robert Heinlein

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

Author: Kristin Hersh

I had always broken the rules.

Author: Lauren Hutton

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

Author: Ron Jaworski

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Author: Michael Korda

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

Author: Carson Kressley

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

Author: Emeril Lagasse

I like rules that are broken.

Author: Shelby Lynne

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Author: Douglas MacArthur

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Author: W. Maugham

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Author: John Milton

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Author: Marilyn Monroe

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Author: Alanis Morissette

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

Author: Paul Parker

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

Author: Harold Pinter

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Author: Francois Rabelais

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Author: Timothy Radcliffe

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Author: Rudy Rucker

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

Author: Klaus Schulze

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Author: Bill Shankly

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

Author: Michael Shanks

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Author: George Shaw

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Author: John Smith

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Author: Susan Sontag

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

Author: John Spratt

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

Author: Parker Stevenson

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

Author: Lawrence Taylor

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Author: Simon Travaglia

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Author: Bill Veeck

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Author: Ken Venturi

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

Author: Jerry Weller

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Author: Jeanette Winterson

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

Author: Tiger Woods

Creativity is not bound by rules, but rather by the limits of our imagination.

Author: Emily Walker

Creativity is not limited by rules; it is guided by imagination.

Author: Olivia Chen

Creativity is not bound by rules, but fueled by imagination.

Author: Sophia Cohen

Creativity is not bound by rules, it thrives in the vast landscape of imagination

Author: Sofia Alvarez