Top 1200 Unwritten Rules Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

There are comedic rules and formulae and, while these tenets should be respected, especially by a newcomer, perversely you can still succeed by openly contradicting them. Because comedy is about breaking the rules. Even its own rules. Though, as with many disciplines, it is wise to master the basics before you attempt to subvert them.

It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

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

We have rules about the environment and rules about worker safety and rules about consumer protection.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

I always say that you could publish trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80 percent as good as what we taught people. What they couldn’t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

I like playing with fashion and bending the "rules," or what was "rules" - there are no rules anymore, you know? Fashion is way bigger than that and it's about wearing what you want and wearing what makes you feel comfortable and what makes you feel confident.

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

The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.

Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.