I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
Erykah Badu

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.
Moon Unit Zappa

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
Moon Unit Zappa

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
Moon Unit Zappa

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

But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.
Jennifer Saunders

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

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
Jesse Ventura

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
Nicolas Cage

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
Jackson Browne

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Jackson Browne

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
Billy Sunday

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda

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.
Michael Korda

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Anne Hutchinson

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
Alan Rickman

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
King Edward VIII

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
Alanis Morissette

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno