Rulebook Quotes

#1. Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

Nancy Gibbs

#2. One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.

Ethan Hawke

#3. You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

John Lydon

#4. The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

Zakk Wylde

#5. You can't learn to play soccer by reading the rulebook, you can't learn to play the piano by studying sheets of music, and you can't learn to cook by reading recipes.

Tina Seelig

#6. Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Billy Corgan

#7. The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

Ben Harper

#8. It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.

Sandy Alderson

#9. You know, the rulebook states anything agreed through sexual manipulation is thrown out after the act.

Kristen Ashley

#10. When you read the Bible on its own terms, you discover that it doesn't behave itself like a holy rulebook should.

Peter Enns

#11. No, you're not shooting me down, kiddo ... Because I'm not really trying. When I do try, you'll know it. And then you'll throw the whole damn rulebook out the window.

Karina Halle

#12. There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.

Jasper Fforde

#13. Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

Tavi Gevinson

#14. Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

Greg Rucka

#15. I tried to be grown up but I have no interest in abiding by the adult rulebook. I want to do fun things that make me happy [ ... ] You might call me a child. Good. For if adults had even the slightest in-the-moment joy of a child then frankly the world would be a better place.

Miranda Hart

#16. It's all part of the bartender's creed: make them fresh, make them cold, but most of all, if they're a little overeager, make them wait.

William Lashner

#17. Without life's struggles, we cannot grow into the person that we are meant to become.

Auliq Ice

#18. east was east and west was west and never the twain shall meet, and

Christine Pope

#19. There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.

Elena Ferrante

#21. A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

Rich Lowry

#22. Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

#23. A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

David Gemmell

#24. I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.

Kavita Kane

#25. Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go ...

Boy George