Quotes of: Rule Keyword

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Diane Duane

Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.

Diane von Furstenberg

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

David Graeber

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

D. H. Lawrence

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Jenny Eclair

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

John Marshall Harlan

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Jaromir Jagr

Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That's winning always.

Jubin Jomon

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?

Jimmy Kimmel

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

Jill Lepore

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Jim Leach

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

Stefan Zweig

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Fay: You love baseball. Harry Block: Baseball's easy because it has rules. It has foul lines.

Deconstructing Harry

Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

Steven Levitt

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Lysander Spooner

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

Natan Sharansky

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

Pieter Zeeman

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

Tom Shadyac