A Quote by Shelby Lynne

I like rules that are broken. — © Shelby Lynne
I like rules that are broken.

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There are important rules in life - like not parking on yellow lines or stealing from your neighbour. But some rules are made to be broken.
Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so.
Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.
Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.
If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.
Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.
Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.
There are rules that are so blatantly broken on 'Contra,' like structures of harmony and texture.
Simply put, some people think they are above rules or even that rules are there to be broken. Once you start teaching that to your kids, this country is really in trouble.
I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."
When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.
Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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