Rules Quotes

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

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.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.