Quotes About Rules

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

In Europe, I used to post a lot because they call fouls over there easier than over here.

I would gladly give up my driver if it's not conforming. But there's still 130 other players in the field that potentially have a nonconforming driver, as well.

I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

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

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

The Defense Department is prone to all of the 'traditional bureaucratic rules,' which is the same thing you'll find in most traditional government systems.

I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

When something's taboo, the kids get a sense where they want to do it because it's taboo.

What we need to do is continue to learn to tackle better, continue to change the rules so we make it safer.

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.

There's so much more you can do with four bodies in the rules of a tag team match than two guys in a singles match. It's just a completely different thing.

We're very clear in the race that priority will be given to the lead car and more risk will be taken with the tail car. Sometimes that will work out, sometimes it won't, but it's very clear going into the event that those are the rules of engagement.