Top 100 There Are No Rules Quotes
#1. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt
#2. 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
#3. Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.
Tina Turner
#4. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
Tony Blair
#5. I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.
Francisco Goya
#6. There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.
Hugh Prather
#7. With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.
Paulo Coelho
#8. I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.
Doug Hutchison
#9. There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.
Peter Guber
#10. It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.
Eleanor Farjeon
#14. There are no rules when it comes to makeup!
Kevyn Aucoin
#15. There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison
#18. My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
Ryan McGinley
#19. For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.
Larry Clark
#20. I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
Michael Ian Black
#21. Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.
Raymond Salvatore Harmon
#22. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
#23. We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
Paulo Coelho
#25. 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
#26. If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#27. there are NO rules, merely suggestions
Keri Smith
#28. You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by instinct and you have to be brave.
Whitney Otto
#29. When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.
Bryant McGill
#30. When the only rule is there are no rules becomes literal, we'll all become illiterate and unable to offend one another at all.
Brian Spellman
#31. There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.
Yehudi Menuhin
#32. Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
Brendon Urie
#33. Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.
Reuben Fine
#34. There are no rules in life. Whether it is written down, or spoken by shamans, nothing binds a man beyond himself. Nothing, save the chains he accepts for himself. Laws and traditions mean nothing, if you have the strength.
Conn Iggulden
#35. The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.
Moss Hart
#36. There are no rules in life. It's a mind-set that limits people dramatically.
Tara Stiles
#37. The beauty of art is that there are no rules
Mia Michaels
#38. As long as you're dancing, you can
Break the rules.
Sometimes breaking the rules is just
Extending the rules.
Sometimes there are no rules.
Mary Oliver
#39. There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Victor Hugo
#40. Rules [10w]
There are no rules
is the hardest rule to follow.
Beryl Dov
#41. In love there are no rules, only exceptions.
Marty Rubin
#42. There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
Frank Capra
#43. I'm following a dream and as far as I know there are no rules in a dream....
Danny Kemp
#44. Parents aren't supposed to cry. Or get scared. Or lie. Right? I thought I knew all the rules. But there are no rules.
Aimee Friedman
#45. There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
Arnold Newman
#46. One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#47. If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.
Matthew Vaughn
#48. [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
Wallace Stegner
#49. Fuck buddies don't have rules. It's like being in a fight club. The first rule of fuck buddies is ... there are no rules. I was making this up as I went along. I had no idea if fuck buddies had rules. I'd never had a fuck buddy. I'd never even wanted one. Hell, I didn't want one now!
Kristen Ashley
#50. I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.
Bruce Holland Rogers
#53. Street-fighting's first rule: there are no rules.
Lee Child
#54. There are no rules by which intellectuals
can know what to say or do; nor for the true
secular intellectual are there any gods to be worshiped and looked to for unwavering guidance.
Edward Said
#55. There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The lyrics seem to be born out of that, and the fact that it's still a mystery to me is my favorite part.
Jason Reeves
#56. There are no rules in writing. If the words work for you, use them.
Claire Contreras
#57. There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
Gerry Spence
#58. What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how to play this game. That is a big problem I think that exists in the education on how to be a filmmaker or how to make movies.
Brad Furman
#59. There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
Will Shetterly
#60. The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette.
Which is to say: there are no rules.
Or, rather, there are plenty of rules, but they ask, on bended knees, to be broken.
Amanda Palmer
#61. Macy: "In Truth," I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth."
Wes: "How do you win?" he asked
Macy: "That," I said, "is such a boy question.
Sarah Dessen
#62. The way I feel about you doesn't come with a set of restrictions. There are no rules that say if you do this or you don't do that, I won't care anymore. This is just an aspect of who you are and I love you for the entirety of you, not for the different pieces I can pull out.
Donna Augustine
#63. There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.
Paul Lowe
#64. In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.
Jeff Probst
#65. There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
Suzanne Vega
#66. There are no Rules in Art . . .Only Creativity
Edna Stewart
#67. You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.
Joey McIntyre
#70. There are no rules when it comes to being yourself. You're unlimited as long as you don't limit yourself.
Lisa Cimorelli
#71. 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
#72. Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.
Alex Lifeson
#73. But I say their rules are bullshit. I say there are no rules but the ones a man makes for himself.
Dennis Lehane
#74. I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
Matthew McConaughey
#75. One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."
Anton Szandor LaVey
#76. I see it now.
There are no rules. It's survival of the fittest
Lauren DeStefano
#77. There are no rules.
Love.
Survival.
Truth.
Freedom.
I write my words. I savor them. They have taste and strength and memory and rhythm.
Outside my window, I see the morning star. And I watch it until it winks out in the light of dawn.
Katherine Longshore
#78. No one outside can tell who is right for one. There are no rules. One knows it without help. Sometimes the rest of the world thinks one is wrong, but they cannot know.
C.P. Snow
#79. There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
Jim Morrison
#80. There is no one specific method that everyone must use. There are no rules and rigid requirements. It is a way of life and a belief system.
Leila Haynes
#81. There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.
Fredric Brown
#82. I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all.
Mirah
#83. There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
Charles Saatchi
#84. Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#85. There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Helen Frankenthaler
#86. There are no rules here
we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison
#88. There are no rules. There are no guidelines. You have few supplies, and there's nothing to help you along the way. Go through the Flat Trans at the time indicated. Find open air. Go one hundred miles, directly north, to the safe haven. Make it or die.
James Dashner
#89. If there is no God, no devil, no heaven, no hell then therefore there are no rules.
John Steinbeck
#90. I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
Alanis Morissette
#91. There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
Frederick Lenz
#92. When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
Zoe McLellan
#93. There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted.
Simone Elkeles
#94. In the world of mules
There are no rules.
Ogden Nash
#95. It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.
Steven Wright
#97. There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
James Frey
#98. [I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the principles of integrity and objectivity, with a complete rejection of all authority except that of fact.
Joel Henry Hildebrand
#99. Never say never. I myself say no to things, and then I wear them. So, I'm now kind of sticking to the rule that there are no rules. Everything eventually comes back.
Brad Goreski
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