Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. – Claude Debussy
Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I’m sure make sense to them, but don’t make sense to me or any people. – Billy Eichner
The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers. – Ambrose Burnside
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. – Bernard Pivot
For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it’s something we always do. – Ami Bera
I’m a Conservative. I don’t believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes. – Alistair Brownlee
Ballroom dancing: it’s a wonderful thing at so many levels because you’ve got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don’t really have that any more. – Anton du Beke
If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn’t part of what I wanted to do. It wasn’t my goal. – Brigitte Bardot
I’ve only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something. – Colonel Sanders
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction. – Alice Munro
I think that certainly the artists of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn’t give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules. – Anne Roiphe
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva’s an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He’s a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her. – Amish Tripathi
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules. – Alanis Morissette
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it. – Adam Davidson
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. – Alex Berenson
We’re a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. – Craig Venter
I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something like that. And we make a lot of rules and end up hurting a lot of innocent people that are trying to start up their companies. – Brad Wenstrup
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There’s nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. – Amanda Pays
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with. – Brad Pitt
The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. – Ben Harper
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies. – Bill Gates
It’s much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within. – Alan Dershowitz
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. – Barton Gellman
Children are becoming disobedient… why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations. – Cesar Millan
When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn’t know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands. – Adam DeVine
As far as critics, I’m not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me ’cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I’ve always like, played by the rules. – Bobby Vinton
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers. – Brian Greene