Rules Quotes

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.