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. No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
Ian Hislop
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. (Love is the puzzle that) can't be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Chris Dee
#6. 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
#7. There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity's control.
J. Meredith Neil
#8. I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.
Amber Riley
#9. There are no definite rules (in writing). You learn as you go.
Winna Efendi
#10. No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
Dave Eggers
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.
Paulo Coelho
#14. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
#15. I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.
Doug Hutchison
#16. There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.
Peter Guber
#17. 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
#20. I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.
Patrick Rothfuss
#21. During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can't kill the second lead on your TV show! Whatever's going to happen, it's all okay because there's no way they can kill the star.
Terence Winter
#23. There are no rules when it comes to makeup!
Kevyn Aucoin
#24. 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
#25. Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody
a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
Margaret Atwood
#26. 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
#27. There are so many rules that you don't know, and no matter how much you study, you can't learn them all.
Leila Sales
#29. 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
#30. From 1960-2015 Nigerians live under the rules of those who are above the law, but from 2015 we hope for a little change, and if there is no change in 2015, only God knows what will happened.
Hamzatribah
#31. 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
#32. I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
Michael Ian Black
#33. 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
#34. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
#35. There are rules but there's really no wrong way.
India.Arie
#36. There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.
E. Howard Hunt
#37. We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
Paulo Coelho
#38. In life there might be rules. In love there are no exceptions to those rules. No one is spared from heartbreak. We all suffer it at some point or another. You simply can't control who you love and in particular, you can't control what kind of person they are.
J.C. Reed
#39. There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#40. Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.
Sophie Hannah
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. there are NO rules, merely suggestions
Keri Smith
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.
Yehudi Menuhin
#49. Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
Brendon Urie
#50. Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.
Reuben Fine
#51. The truth is there are always three choices: the right one, the wrong one and the one that is called "No Choice". As you may guessed, the "No Choice" one is a rule of a bad interpreter.
Galina Nelson
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. There are no rules in life. It's a mind-set that limits people dramatically.
Tara Stiles
#55. The beauty of art is that there are no rules
Mia Michaels
#56. 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
#57. There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Victor Hugo
#58. Rules [10w]
There are no rules
is the hardest rule to follow.
Beryl Dov
#59. Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!
Albert Einstein
#60. In love there are no rules, only exceptions.
Marty Rubin
#61. There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
Frank Capra
#62. Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City.
But what if the ones who set the rules are the ones lying to you?
What if the ones who reprimand the rule-breakers are lying to you?
Who do you believe when there is nobody left to believe?
Lisa Alfonso
#63. I'm following a dream and as far as I know there are no rules in a dream....
Danny Kemp
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
Diana Vreeland
#69. [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
#70. The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I'm making 22 minutes; I know there's a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.
Jerry Seinfeld
#71. 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
#72. 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
#75. Street-fighting's first rule: there are no rules.
Lee Child
#76. When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.
Robyn Davidson
#77. I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.
Christoph Waltz
#78. In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
John Sweeney
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. There are no rules in writing. If the words work for you, use them.
Claire Contreras
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.
Garry Kasparov
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Are there rules?'
'No gods, no staffs, first man to stay down for the count loses and we suspend the contest if the building collapses.'
- on magical duels
Ben Aaronovitch
#90. 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
#91. 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
#93. 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
#94. When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
Jeffrey Kluger
#95. There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
Suzanne Vega
#96. Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#97. There are no Rules in Art . . .Only Creativity
Edna Stewart
#98. You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.
Joey McIntyre
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