Top 100 My Rule Quotes
#1. My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
Al McGuire
#2. My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.
Claes Oldenburg
#3. I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
Edmund Burke
#4. My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.
David Naylor
#5. My rule is: If I can eat it, I can put it on my skin.
Nikki Reed
#6. I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
Anthony Hopkins
#7. Annie is my wife, and she will remain wi' me as my wife, subject only to my rule. I will suffer no man to dishonor her or lay hand upon her so long as I live.
Pamela Clare
#8. At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.
Robert McNamara
#9. I have adhered to my rule of never criticising any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it.
Winston S. Churchill
#10. My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
Justin Cronin
#11. My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.
Giancarlo Esposito
#12. Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.
Don Hertzfeldt
#13. For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.
Shailene Woodley
#14. I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke
#15. My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#16. I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
Jonathan Edwards
#17. My rule is always, People first and things second.
Leo Buscaglia
#18. Grandma Singer was a fearsome creature. If we ever did have a war under my rule, my plan was to send her to the front lines. She'd come home holding the enemy by his ear within a week.
Kiera Cass
#19. My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.
Henry Adams
#20. My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
Hallie Ephron
#21. My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.
David Robert Mitchell
#22. That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines?
'Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.' ?
That is my gospel. What do you think of it?
William McFee
#24. My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
Malcolm Gladwell
#25. My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill
#26. Here's my rule about shoes, buy them.
Rachel Zoe
#27. My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.
Melissa Rivers
#28. I only have one rule: I don't do anything for money; that's my rule.
Terry Crews
#29. My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
Ishmael Beah
#31. My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.
Stepan Makarov
#32. I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
Harvey Fierstein
#33. If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.
Haruki Murakami
#34. I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.
Laurent Brancowitz
#35. My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#36. My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.
Gene Wolfe
#38. My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
Benjamin Franklin
#39. You've got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.
Cliff Asness
#40. To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
John James Audubon
#41. When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
Winston Churchill
#42. People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.
Julie Plec
#43. With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.
Nicole Richie
#44. My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
David Lynch
#45. My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
Michael Sheen
#46. On a baby of his own: You gotta be married first. That's my rule: marriage then baby!
Rob Kardashian
#47. My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: "If you're on time, you're late!" That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won't settle until halfway through the class.
Gudjon Bergmann
#48. Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Carl Hiaasen
#49. My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#50. The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
Sherry Thomas
#51. It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey
#53. My rule has been that you can always find something interesting in every woman that you wouldn't find in any other.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#54. My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.
Emilia Clarke
#55. My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
Wolf Blitzer
#56. I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).
Ray Comfort
#57. My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.
Nicki Minaj
#58. My rule is "Enjoy the non-shitty things now because shitty things are coming.
Jenny Lawson
#59. My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
Maureen Johnson
#60. I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.
Andie MacDowell
#61. I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.
Ethan Hawke
#62. I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.
Kevin Hart
#63. I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
Iris Murdoch
#64. As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain
#65. My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.
Tommy Hilfiger
#66. My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're unhappy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.
Richard Feynman
#68. Morning, K," Levi said, looking wide-awake and cheerful.
Demons shouldn't be chipper. It should be a rule. Or maybe just my rule. Rule Number 1: Levi must never be perky in my presence. I needed to work on enforcing that.
Erin Lynn
#69. MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
Rex Stout
#70. I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
Ben Harper
#71. When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was ... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.
Lee Hazlewood
#72. My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving
monogram it!
Reese Witherspoon
#73. Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,
Agatha Christie
#74. My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed.
Ishmael Beah
#76. I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.
Hasan Minhaj
#77. I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
Matt LeBlanc
#78. The first rule for all women to know and never forget is that Carpathian males do not share their lifemates. Tour brother has much to answer for that this was not drilled into you since birth. It was is job to prepare you for my coming.
Christine Feehan
#79. I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!
Benjamin
#80. There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!
Candice Olson
#81. My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.
Yahya Jammeh
#82. My mom said I wasn't allowed to date until I was sixteen, but I broke that rule. She found out and said, 'I'm disappointed in you.'
Justin Bieber
#83. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
John Barnes
#84. Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.
Simon Sinek
#85. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.
Mark Cuban
#86. My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood ... And they're huge human-turtles!!
Jason Reeves
#87. I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.
William Shockley
#88. TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.
Melissa Rauch
#89. I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.
Ja Rule
#90. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Stephen King
#91. I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.
Evangeline Lilly
#92. It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,
I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars - how could it not be?
Emalynne Wilder
#93. mama, you taught me to look pretty but i can't anymore, and i am learning that's okay. i am learning to sharpen my teeth and rule kingdoms, instead.
Arlen C.
#94. I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
Kate Greenaway
#95. I felt the joy of knowing that in some small way I had fought back against someone who wanted to rule me against my will. I said no.
Doris Mortman
#96. Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
Darren Shan
#97. the spoons jumped off the rack. And a couple of times I've heard a man call my name when no one else was here
Leslie Rule
#98. I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
Louis Armstrong
#99. My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.
Hester Browne
#100. For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
Nana Mouskouri
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