I Break Rules Quotes

#1. I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

Sally Phillips

#2. If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#3. Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her.
"You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend you over that table and break the club's no-penetration-in-the-lounge rule.

Olivia Cunning

#4. Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

Ville Valo

#5. I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.

Andy Kindler

#6. Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.

Gloria Steinem

#7. 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.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is "Don't be stupid."
I'm about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

Pittacus Lore

#9. I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

Vera Wang

#10. I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

Gianni Versace

#11. See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Herbie Hancock

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

Carson Kressley

#13. No one can break as many rules as I have and not get caught somehow, sometime.

Ally Condie

#14. I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

Mary Tyler Moore

#15. I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

Katherine Heigl

#16. It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that's pretty dumb.

Greg Zeschuk

#17. I'd go off alone,
because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible,
you avoid the rules.

Steven Herrick

#18. Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn't make sense, that's why

Madonna Ciccone

#19. I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.

George Carlin

#20. Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.

Barton Gellman

#21. A proper young lady who should, in your opinion, play by the conventional rules. do as you like, Mr. Hopkins, but I am having a mulled wine. This feels like a good day to break rules.

A.S. Croyle

#22. I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goods, steal our international property rights, and hack the computers of our industries and government. Something must be done about it.

Lawrence Kudlow

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

Bill Veeck

#24. Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Tom Hodgkinson

#25. At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.

George Orwell

#26. I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

Ella Baker

#27. That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I'm bound to break many more.

Haruki Murakami

#28. I'd never been one to break rules. But they seemed to matter less and less with every kiss. Every thrust into her softness. Every sigh she moaned into my ear. Of course, that wasn't the case. I knew there'd be serious repercussions if the truth came out, but I couldn't stay away from her.

Sha Renee

#29. I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

Dita Von Teese

#30. I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

Jeff Beck

#31. They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game

R.D. Laing

#32. You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.

Ang Lee

#33. I believe the best in people. I believe if you need a bathroom break you go to the bathroom. If you need treatment, you get treatment. I don't think any rules should be changed.

Caroline Wozniacki

#34. I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

Donatella Versace

#35. I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember - it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

James Beard

#36. I want to break the rules with you. Kiss you passionately every day. Make you smile when you're about to cry. I want no regrets with us. I want us to laugh together until we can't breathe and it hurts. No man will ever love you the way I'm going to love you, Emily. You're it. My last. My forever.

Gail McHugh

#37. When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules." The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business.

Leah D. Daughtry

#38. I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Jeff Beck

#39. I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us ... I would find you. I don't care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always.

Sarah J. Maas

#40. 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 in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.

Sloane Crosley

#41. What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.

Diana Wynne Jones

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

Leo Durocher

#43. Eros doomed! I doubt it ... eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

#44. What rules?"
"Well, for one, I'm not allowed to break your heart," he says. "Second, I'm also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I'm not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.

Colleen Hoover

#45. Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.

Anthony Hopkins

#46. Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.

Billy Collins

#47. Good." He grinned.
"I was kind of worried you'd say no. It's like so against the rules it's not even funny."
I smiled. "Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you've demonstrated a deplorable lack of respect for all of my rules."
He chuckled. "Never met a rule I couldn't break.

Audrey Bell

#48. I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up."
"The world doesn't end," Bree said quietly. "Amazing, but it really doesn't.

Kim Edwards

#49. I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

Autre Ne Veut

#50. And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.

Tim Gunn

#51. Stay put," he says. "Don't touch yourself. Don't put your legs together. You'll come when I let you, Nikki, but not before. Break my rules, and I promise you won't like the punishment.

J. Kenner

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

Phil Knight

#53. 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

#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. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. What happens when I break one of your fuckin' rules?

Simone Elkeles

#60. 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

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

J.K. Rowling

#62. 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

#63. 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

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

Rosamund Pike

#65. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

John Waters

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

Klaus Nomi

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

Ray Parker Jr.

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

Anne Eliot

#69. 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

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

Danny Wallace

#71. 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

#72. 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

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

Zoe Wanamaker

#74. 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

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

Douglas Wilson

#76. 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

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

Martine McCutcheon

#78. There are rules to the game but I don't believe that we need to be bound by them. If it feels appropriate to follow the rules, then by all means, follow them. If it feels better to break the rules, be creative and do it.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#79. I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.

Helmut Krone

#80. I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.

Donatella Versace

#81. I hate when I break my own rules. What's the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?

Jesse Ball

#82. Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

Jeff Overton

#83. I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.

Kesha

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

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

Brad Furman

#88. I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

Angela Cartwright

#89. Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian

Jessica Khoury

#90. I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

Manish Dayal

#91. 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

#92. 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

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

Jeanette Winterson

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

Quentin Tarantino

#97. 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

#98. I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

Morton Feldman

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

Grant Bowler

#100. 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