Rules Quotes

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

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.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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.

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.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

Appearance rules the world.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.