Top 100 Break The Rules Quotes

#1. I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play and I'll always believe in that for as long as I'm playing.

Tom Brady

#2. There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

Douglas Wilson

#3. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.

Logan Marshall-Green

#5. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.

Isaac Asimov

#6. By all means break the rules ...

Robert Bringhurst

#7. Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

Zoe Wanamaker

#8. I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

Zack Snyder

#9. I really never break the rules. I'm not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I'll say it, but I'm not kind of like a born rebel.

Emma Watson

#10. If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time.

Timothy Ferriss

#11. But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.

Danny Wallace

#12. Life is short, break the rules.

Mark Twain

#13. break all the rules and you'll do just fine

Ana Christy

#14. If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

Naomi Watts

#15. Again, what if you and I are meant to break all of the unwritten and written rules?

Anne Eliot

#16. Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

Anamika Mishra

#17. Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

Max Barry

#18. We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

David Bottoms

#19. Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

Christofer Emgard

#20. Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

Logan Marshall-Green

#21. Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

George A. Romero

#22. You are remembered for the rules you break.

Douglas MacArthur

#23. If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

John Sculley

#24. Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Marvin Bell

#25. Learn the rules, then break them intelligently.

Jessica Bell

#26. I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.

Ray Parker Jr.

#27. Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Andrew Young

#28. When it comes to the college essay, feel free to break some rules. Many still apply, of course: you need to watch your grammar and spell everything correctly. Sentence structure still matters. But the formula that got you A's in English can be a straitjacket when you're writing your college essay.

Cassie Nichols

#29. I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

Klaus Nomi

#30. You are remembered, he said, prophetically, for the rules you break. I

Phil Knight

#31. It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.

Rosamund Pike

#32. What you have to do is break all the rules.

Andrew Wyeth

#33. My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.

Bharati Mukherjee

#34. To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.

Burne Hogarth

#35. So, as one famous writer said, "You need to know the rules first before you can break the rules". I do know the rules, but sometimes I choose to skirt around the edges, not enough to draw a penalty but certainly enough to raise some eyebrows.

Stan Schatt

#36. I never thought I'd see the day when you'd be persuading us to break rules, said Ron.

J.K. Rowling

#37. The whims of youth break all the rules.

Homer

#38. Ur love can be succeed,just u have to break the rules..

Alisha

#39. Learn all the rules ... then break them.

Lea DeLaria

#40. You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules p.79

Gloria Steinem

#41. I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Malcolm McLaren

#42. So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#43. Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

Beau Willimon

#44. That's odd. It looks almost as if Nick is picking a fight with that elephant."
"Well, the elephant started it."
"That's irrelevant. Fighting with civilians is against the rules. Go break it up."
-Admiral Breya Andreyasn & Sergeant Schlock

Howard Tayler

#45. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Pablo Picasso

#46. All right. Normal rules apply."
"Right."
The man walked off, leaving us.
"What are the normal rules?" I asked.
"He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

Maureen Johnson

#47. As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Eliot Spitzer

#48. Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

Christopher Moore

#49. Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#50. Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

Brooke Harris

#51. It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#52. After allthe events of the previous summer he was more prtective then ever,and i whanted to be sure i knew the rules i'd be likely to break once we arrived in bridewell.

Patrick Carman

#53. Learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.

Pablo Picasso

#54. I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

Jason Blum

#55. It's funny what love can do to a person. It strips them of everything, even their instincts. It creates a new reality for you to adhere to, a new world where you break the rules just to keep the love intact.

Karina Halle

#56. My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.

Yvon Chouinard

#57. My mother, Nicolette, is the Katagaria Grand Regis Ursulan- so don't start no shit, won't be no shit. Quick rule rundown. No fighting, no biting, no magick. You break the rules, we break body parts and you're banned from here ... if you survive. In short, come in peace or leave in pieces. (Dev)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#58. It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

Lev Grossman

#59. People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It's like they're sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play.

Helen Smith

#60. When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.

Grant Bowler

#61. As long as you're dancing, you can
Break the rules.
Sometimes breaking the rules is just
Extending the rules.
Sometimes there are no rules.

Mary Oliver

#62. And strategy is just a fancy word for a special kind of common sense, the ability to see options, to make them where there were none. It's not about knowing the rules. It's about knowing how to break them.

V.E Schwab

#63. The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.

Ed Seykota

#64. When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history, [which] break the rules to get the villains, and [in doing] so become villains themselves.

Barrett Brown

#65. Break the rules and make up your own rules.

Elle Meyer

#66. Rachel snatched her hand back. Sorry, I forgot the rules. Everything's a joke until it's not, and words don't mean anything until you want them to.

Kit Rocha

#67. It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.

Michael Dell

#68. Sometimes it is good to breach the rules
so as to achieve an end,
Yet keep an edge and not break or bend.

Mira Midha

#69. Obey every rule that will enhance your trust in God for greater work! Break every law that might cause a tear in your relationship with Him against your destiny!

Israelmore Ayivor

#70. Break the rules. Be a fighter. Any dream is possible if you are brave enough to do it YOUR way.

AJ Lee

#71. I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

Totie Fields

#72. I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play ... but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

Alexander Fleming

#73. N the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

Masashi Kishimoto

#74. In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

Ilona Andrews

#75. By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Robert Bringhurst

#76. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#77. What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Malcolm McLaren

#78. Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.

Kyra Davis

#79. And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.

Neil Gaiman

#80. You cannot ask a person who is created to break down fences to be the same who builds them.
The one who breaks fences believes in freedom, no boundaries and universal browsing. Those who build them believe in setting rules for others and make sure other are controlled by his/her concepts ...

Sameh Elsayed

#81. You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you go along. Once these rules are set, you must never, under any circumstances, break any of them. Dare to break a rule, and you will never live it down. Trust me.

Kathy Young

#82. Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Dalai Lama XIV

#83. To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

David Gross

#84. Good nurses follow rules," Lib growled, "but the best know when to break them.

Emma Donoghue

#85. If you aren't sure of the rules then follow them. If you are sure of the rules break them.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#86. There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

Anthony De Mello

#87. When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

Peter Coyote

#88. I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

Martine McCutcheon

#89. To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Nadia Boulanger

#90. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

David Brin

#91. You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

Rickie Lee Jones

#92. Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

Julian Baggini

#93. Any kind of organized revolt against the party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing to do was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.

George Orwell

#94. I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

Brad Furman

#95. You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

Alexander McQueen

#96. Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.
It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them.
And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#97. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#98. I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

Robert Graves

#99. Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'

'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.

Fuminori Nakamura

#100. Remember: Life is short, break the rules

James Dean

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