Appearance rules the world.
Friedrich Schiller

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
Neil Gaiman

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
Ville Valo

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
Sparky Anderson

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Xun Zi

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Branch Rickey

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
Harold Pinter

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
V. S. Naipaul

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Claude Debussy

I like breaking the rules.
Lexa Doig

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.
Jacob Bronowski

I had always broken the rules.
Lauren Hutton

I like rules that are broken.
Shelby Lynne

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

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader

We have to be careful about creating more rules.
Paul Parker

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Mason Cooley