Top 100 Rule Number Quotes
#2. Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward
J.R. Ward
#3. Never let them see your fear ... it's rule number one. And it's not that I'm afraid. No, I'm not.
I don't fear death.
I've already died too many times before.
I'm a cat with nine lives and I'm already on number twelve. I'm living on borrowed time. When death wants to take me, it'll take me.
J.M. Darhower
#4. I demand to break rule number #5
I demand to kiss her today. Right now, even.
A.S. King
#5. Rule number six: no promises."
"Okay", I agree easily. "No promises, ever."
"Promise?" he asks.
"Promise."
"And that's it."
"That's the only one.
Mary Elizabeth
#6. Echo lived her life according to two rules, the first of which was simple: don't get caught.
........ Some rules it would seam were meant to be broken..........
Rule number two, Echo thought snagging a pork bun from a food stall as she sailed past it. If you do get caught, run.
Melissa Grey
#7. There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.
J. B. Smoove
#8. I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number ... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
Dan Webster
#9. Rule number one: your accounts must always present a true and factual picture of your business operations.' 'And what's the other rule?' asked Arvind. 'Rule number two is to occasionally forget rule number one.
Ashwin Sanghi
#10. Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
Kristen Ashley
#11. Rule number something or other
never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
Sara Paretsky
#12. I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry."
"Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.
Chris D'Lacey
#13. OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.
Karen Walker
#14. In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.
Leo Durocher
#15. The only way to stay alive is to stay alone. That's rule number two.
Rick Yancey
#16. Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#17. They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
Sebastian Faulks
#18. Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you.
Tana French
#19. Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."
Brian Tracy
#20. Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.
Mary Matalin
#21. Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
Neil Gaiman
#22. As much as I hated to admit it, Ami was right. Rule number two of lying is to make it as airtight as possible. Which just goes back to rule number one: never get caught.
Alicia Thompson
#23. Simplicity matters. Especially when it comes to the muscle memory of boxing. That is perhaps rule number one. Simplicity works. Simplicity is repetition. Repetition is function. Boil function down to one action, maybe two. Left or right. Simplicity. Simplicity is really the hardest thing.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#24. Rule number one about your mate: he is completely wrong until you decide he is not.
Quinn Loftis
#25. Rule number one of crime scene work: If it's wet and sticky and it ain't yours, don't touch it.
-Terry Cooper, crime scene specialist, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Beverly Connor
#26. rule number eight: noting ventured, nothing gained
Mitali Perkins
#27. Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Mike Davies
#29. I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child.
Mark Lawrence
#30. Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
Candace Bushnell
#31. Never say goodbye" he demands. His smile fades. "I'm making my own Rules, Never say goodbye, that's rule number one
Rachel Robinson
#32. Yeah. Book nerd rule number three: never ever, leave an unfinished book at home.
J.J. McAvoy
#33. He turned to look at the door and narrowed his eyes. So, Rule Number One, apparently, was that he wasn't allowed to crack a smile during foreplay. "Got it," he muttered to himself as he pulled his shirt over his head and tossed it to the side before stepping up to the door and throwing it open.
Abigail Roux
#34. But he's also not your only client! Rule number one in business is to not ever let the big dog know how small the other dogs are.
Christina Lauren
#35. Rule number one, never put your heart over your hustle and rule number two, never break rule number one.
Dream Collins
#36. I don't think anyone's had the stranger danger talk with him. Because rule number one is that you don't jump into strange unmarked vans with the bad guys,
T.M. Frazier
#37. Rule number one for not being creepy," she says. "Announce your presence in a room if another person doesn't see you come in.
Veronica Roth
#38. Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases.
Arriane: Rule number two - don't listen to me!
Lauren Kate
#39. Rule number one. The good guys always win.
Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.
Charles S. Faddis
#41. Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.
Frances Brody
#42. Will you break rule number two with me, Tate? Because I really want to marry you.
Colleen Hoover
#43. Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.
Lisa Scottoline
#44. Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
Marion Ross
#45. Rule number one in adapting - control the situation at hand before it has a chance to control you.
Maggi Myers
#46. Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!
Lauren Kate
#47. Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.
Nicky Charles
#48. There are 2 rules in life:
Number 1- Never quit
Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
Duke Ellington
#49. Make me proud my little first-grader" he said, fist pumping robbie "and, remember rule number one above all"
"Right" he replies "don't talk politics
Jenny B. Jones
#50. Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to.
When you have to.
Malorie Blackman
#51. It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One being "Thou shalt not nail your brother's girlfriend"), I was "Thou shalt not nail your little sister's best friend.
Kristen Ashley
#52. Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
J. Michael Straczynski
#53. So, Rule Number One, apparently, was that he wasn't allowed to crack a smile during foreplay. Got it
Madeleine Urban
#54. Bonner leans his forehead against hers. Zig when they think you'll zag. Creation's Rule Number Two.
What's Number One? Els asks, willing to be this bent soul's straight man.
Zag when they think you'll zig.
Richard Powers
#55. Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself."
Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one."
Svava: "Rule number three: Always be in the fashion.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#56. Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don't screw it up by looking like you're as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.
Jim Butcher
#57. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
Lee Ellis
#58. Rule number one of monster hunting," Cody said. "There are no coincidences."
"No, that's rule number two," Robin said. "Rule number one is, 'Kill it before it eats you.
J.S. Hope
#59. Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston
#60. Look, I know you're a guy - " "Damn straight." "And there's some man rule that you've got to be all macho - " "Rule number three, actually." Both of her eyebrows shot up. "Would you just let me finish before I make you cry and break rule number three.
Cindi Madsen
#61. If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
Eric Temple Bell
#62. Rule number one in paying yourself first is: Don't get into consumer debt in the rst place.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#64. Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.
Ashton Kutcher
#65. That's rule number one for a photographer, isn't it? Fill your frame?
David Cronenberg
#66. Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.
Kathryn Stockett
#67. Okay, rule number one: if you do not understand something, you need to stop me and tell me you don't understand. If I ask if you've got it and you say you've got it but you don't really have it, then it's not my fault that you haven't got it. Got it?
Jeff Erno
#68. I thought I was having a heart attack. I couldn't breathe. I didn't know much, but I did know the rules about owning a dick. Rule number one: It should never bleed. Rule number two: There was no rule number two. IT SHOULD NEVER BLEED.
Tara Sivec
#69. What's rule number two?" Granny stopped, her hands on the back of a chair, and looked straight at me. "Always make sure," she said, slowly, to ensure I paid attention, "that they underestimate you. That is the key.
Anne Fortier
#70. Make me proud today, Robmeister. Keep your hands to yourself and remember rule number one above all things.'
'Don't discuss politics.'
'No, the other one.'
Robbie nods. 'Don't eat glue.' He drops his chin. 'It's my weakness.
Jenny B. Jones
#71. BFF manifesto rule number one: no bullshit. If I thought you were insane, I'd tell you -Anita
Eileen Cook
#72. 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
#73. Rule number one: caffeine is your new best friend. Liquid optimism.
Emma McLaughlin
#74. Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.
John Berendt
#75. He'd been sticking his neck out, which is literally the stupidest thing I can imagine anyone doing when it comes to vampires. That ought to be Rule Number One For Dealing With Vampires, right there. Don't stick your neck out!
Cherie Priest
#77. Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
Candace Bushnell
#78. Let me give you a lesson on war, Golo. Rule number one: never invade Russia.
Martin Amis
#79. I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
Carlos Mesa
#80. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel De Montaigne
#81. The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett
#82. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Edwin Meese
#83. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith
#84. The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.
Melissa Bean
#86. The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.
James Lankford
#87. Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.
Vivian Vande Velde
#88. New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me!
Bill Maher
#89. I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?
Laura Kightlinger
#90. Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.
David Hayter
#91. Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.
The Velominati
#92. I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.
Andrew Bird
#93. The number one rule of the Internet: People are lazy. If you don't include a link, no one can click it. Attribution without a link online borders on useless: 99.9 percent of people are not going to bother Googling someone's name.
Austin Kleon
#94. The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.
Thomas Sowell
#95. I decided that every rule in the Hills Village Middle School Code of Conduct should be worth a certain number of points, depending on how hard it was to break. Of course, this meant I could get into some serious trouble, so I decided to make that worth a bunch of points too.
James Patterson
#96. Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#97. Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.
Richard Curtis
#98. One rule of thumb you should use when setting deadlines for yourself is to carefully consider how much time you expect the entire project to take and multiple that number by 1.5. For example, if you think your project is going to take 10 days to complete, plan to give yourself 15 days.
Ric Thompson
#99. Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.
Phyllis Bentley
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