Rules About Quotes

#1. I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

Kate O'Mara

#2. I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.

Paulo Coelho

#3. No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

Ian Hislop

#4. The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.

Philip Treacy

#5. Did this bother him because he'd made rules about his life? Or did the rules about his life come because things like this bothered him?

Laurelin Paige

#6. I guess God can be whatever God wants to be. Maybe God's so great that even our little rules about material reality and our tiny little universe don't mean anything to God. You ever think of that?

Donna Leon

#7. I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

Mary Frann

#8. What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn't talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in ... It's such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.

Jonathan Blum Kate Orman

#9. For women, it's The Virgin Diet by JJ Virgin, which will challenge your rules about calories and exercise and show you that it's not about how much you eat, but how you combine the right foods in the right order for your body's "chemistry lab." 6.

Vishen Lakhiani

#10. In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Eddie Obeng

#11. There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.

Peter Jackson

#12. There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Terrence McNally

#13. Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

J. Michael Straczynski

#14. Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.

Richard Wurmbrand

#16. Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah
you have to stay away from the Padres.

James Siegel

#17. I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Richard Simmons

#18. The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

Adam Arkin

#19. When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations.

Tom Reed

#20. Everyone has his own conscience,
and there should be no rules about
how a conscience should function.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.

Ben Domenech

#22. The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

Brennan Manning

#23. One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Joan Collins

#24. Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

Sheryl Sandberg

#25. I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Jim McMahon

#26. I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one.

Travis Fimmel

#27. Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.

Peter Farb

#28. I don't think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

Jenny Slate

#29. Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right.

Hany Abu-Assad

#30. There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Charles Saatchi

#31. Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

Peter Lindbergh

#32. I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

Neil Gaiman

#33. 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

#34. And it's stupid to have rules about how long you're allowed to cry and when you're supposed to flip a switch and stop crying. You can't even think. All you can do is feel. So how the heck are you supposed to follow rules?

Lynn Plourde

#35. If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

Sonya Hartnett

#36. We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.

Jim Cantalupo

#37. If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

Bob Marley

#38. We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

Joel Coen

#39. There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

Jay Maisel

#40. 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

#41. I declare, it is like some other part of me made up some rules about happiness and I just went along with them without thinking. My heart is lightened so much that I am amazed at how sad I felt for so long.

Nancy E. Turner

#42. I've heard one of my SEAL mentors say that there are rules about bitching. He said everyone has the right to bitch about a mission or job for five minutes. After those five minutes, you shut the fuck up and get to work.

Mark Owen

#43. The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Jackson Browne

#44. If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

Emanuel Ax

#45. Tell the military the end result you want, and you'll get it. But don't try and tell us how to do it. All those rules about when and under what circumstances an enemy combatant could be killed didn't just make our jobs harder, they put our lives in danger.

Chris Kyle

#46. I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.

Larry Hite

#47. I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

Anna Kendrick

#48. When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#49. Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.

Erma Bombeck

#50. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Bob Dylan

#51. The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Brion James

#52. At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Calvin Coolidge

#53. Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

Michael Masser

#54. The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

Richard Dawkins

#55. Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Tom Peters

#56. Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

David Sedaris

#57. You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

Simone Elkeles

#58. There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person's appearance that you're about to pump for info.

Ruth Bainbridge

#59. When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

Edward Snowden

#60. I wonder what NASA would think about me fucking with the RTG like this. They'd probably hide under their desks and cuddle with their slide rules for comfort.

Andy Weir

#61. Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?

Steve Goodier

#62. The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

Daniel Hannan

#63. If you think I haven't been fantasising about your mouth around my cock, then you're crazy

Amy Andrews

#64. One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

Michael Bywater

#65. The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

Douglas Adams

#66. The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

Richard Prince

#67. Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Carl Bernstein

#68. When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

David Chase

#69. The gay movement doesn't care about what you think ... they're focused on the young ones because if you can put the ideas into their minds it's just a matter of time before you die off and they take your place and their value system will then allow all the rules to be changed.

Scott Lively

#70. Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.

Russell Crowe

#71. Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own (and follow them strictly).

Ursula K. Le Guin

#72. That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
#ShadowofSadd #Books

Steen Langstrup

#73. Are you sure she's dead, because if not, I'm not entirely sure we're supposed to do this. It's against the rules."
"We're standing over a body that we caused the death of, and you're bothered about rules?

John Hennessy

#74. And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

Christopher Titus

#75. 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

#76. He looked at me with a smile that I still remember and ran a finger along his impeccably trimmed mustache. Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It's a gentleman's game. Don't you ever forget that.

Ken Doyle

#77. Books: the one thing the librarians cared about more than the rules.

Claire Fayers

#78. When it's real world rules, it will not matter how big you are. When a bullet hits you in the head, you die. It all becomes about how much heart you have when you go into a world that is so scary, that assesses you and finds you either as an asset or full of crap.

Ric Roman Waugh

#79. Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

Francis Chan

#80. Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

Giambattista Valli

#81. Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Timothy Radcliffe

#82. I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.

Norman Lock

#83. When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.

Walter Kirn

#84. What IS it about this town? I never thought I'd long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons.

C.T. Phipps

#85. I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

Pat Conroy

#86. The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

Jon Meacham

#87. I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.

Jennifer Lynch

#88. Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

Eraldo Banovac

#89. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them

Mark Haddon

#90. The three rules of the Tipping Point - the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context - offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point.

Malcolm Gladwell

#91. Mindset seems obtuse for good reason. We aren't taught to think about mindset. We are taught to follow rules.

Mike Cernovich

#92. Think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

N. T. Wright

#93. See, tops are mostly into the sensation and pleasure of it. They play casually, for fun. Dominants are more serious about roles and rules, and usually more into the power exchange.

Annabel Joseph

#94. First rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Second rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Third rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: if someone taps out, you just keep fighting. Fourth rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: there are no rules. Got it?

Gena Showalter

#95. Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Aimee Mullins

#96. Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?

Anne Perry

#97. I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment's notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society - it was just irresistible.

Robert Kurson

#98. He made slighting remarks about the committee's enforcement, and, well, rules is rules as the rules say someplace, or at least as all the oldies say they say.

N.D. Wilson

#99. It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Jose Maria Aznar

#100. To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality ... I mean it's prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don't have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their own experience.

Bill Konigsberg