Rules Quotes - page 14

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules. (B.K.S. Iyengar)
There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting. View quote
Suzanne Vega
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. View quote
Robert Bringhurst
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist. View quote
Armin van Buuren
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. View quote
Vera Wang
If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. View quote
Billie Jean King
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
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. View quote
Arnold Newman
Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do. (Patricia C. Wrede)
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore. View quote
Raymond Carver
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our case, nobody has taken the trouble of writing down the grammar; we get it as a baby does from parents, by imitation of others. Some mathematicians have a good ear; some not (and some prefer the slangy expressions such as 'iff'). That's life. View quote
Jean-Pierre Serre
The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective). View quote
Tariq Ramadan
Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way. View quote
Nikki Haley
She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. View quote
Amanda Pays
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them. View quote
Amity Shlaes
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole. View quote
Andrew Bogut
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. View quote
Andrew Eldritch
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)
States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making. View quote
Anna Lindh
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion. View quote
Anne Parillaud
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people. View quote
Anne Roiphe
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. View quote
Anne Stevenson