Break The Rules Quotes

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996] ~ Nora Ephron

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place. ~ Richard Rohr

A #GIRLBOSS is someone who's in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it. As a #GIRLBOSS, you take control and accept responsibility. You're a fighter- you know when to throw punches and when to roll with them. Sometimes you break the rules, sometimes you follow them, but always on your terms. You know where you're going, but can't do it without having some fun along the way. You value honesty over perfection. You ask questions. You take your life seriously, but you don't take yourself too seriously. You're going to take over the world, and change it in the process. You're a badass. ~ Sophia Amoruso

Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules ~ Anamika Mishra

As long as you're dancing, you can
Break the rules.
Sometimes breaking the rules is just
Extending the rules.
Sometimes there are no rules. ~ Mary Oliver

Find time everyday to break the rules! ~ Lisa Baker-King

Some say the heart is the most selfish organ in the body because it keeps all the good blood for itself. It takes in all the good blood, the most oxygenated blood, and then distributes the rest to every other organ. So, in a sense maybe the heart is selfish. But if the heart didn't keep the good blood for itself, the heart would die. And if the heart died, it would take every other organ with it. The liver. The kidneys. The brain. The heart, in a way, has to be selfish for its own preservation. So, don't let people tell you that you're selfish and wrong to follow your own heart. I urge you, I give you permission, to break the rules, to think outside the norms of traditional society. ~ Vishen Lakhiani

I want to break the rules with you. Kiss you passionately every day. Make you smile when you're about to cry. I want no regrets with us. I want us to laugh together until we can't breathe and it hurts. No man will ever love you the way I'm going to love you, Emily. You're it. My last. My forever. ~ Gail McHugh

When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body. ~ Neil Shubin

Not everyone is willing to break the rules and customs like I am. But I say that customs are made to serve us, we are not made to serve customs.

But if everyone thought that way there would be lawlessness.

I'd flame anyone else who disobeyed our customs. That's only for me. ~ Sarah K.L. Wilson

What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Alexandra took a very different lesson away from class that day: You can break the rules, if you're good enough. ~ Inverarity

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game ~ R.D. Laing

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat. ~ Philippe Petit

How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking "The Dodge Rebellion"? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast when Burger King sells onion rings with "Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules"? How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more critical of televisual culture by parodying television as a self-serving commercial enterprise when Pepsi and Subaru and FedEx parodies of self-serving commercials are already doing big business? It's almost a history lesson: I'm starting to see just why turn-of-the-century Americans' biggest fear was of anarchist and anarchy. For if anarchy actually wins, if rulelessness become the rule, then protest and change become not just impossible but incoherent. It'd be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting. ~ David Foster Wallace

I don't break the rules, I simply bend them in my favor. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules p.79 ~ Gloria Steinem

I had to break the rules for you Cherry girl, I had to pull you out of the fantasy myself. You'd lost control of it, immersing yourself so deeply in your imaginary reality that it replaced your real life. You have to learn to control it and soon, or in the end, your fantasies will ultimately destroy you. ~ Johnny Stone

Sometimes, the only way to find a solution is to break the rules. ~ Elle Cosimano

Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them. ~ Frederick Lenz

Sometimes we have to break the rules to get what we want. But now I think it's time we change them. ~ Julie Murphy

Break the rules and make up your own rules. ~ Elle Meyer

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules. ~ Dita Von Teese

Those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don't care about their companions... are even lower than filth. ~ Masashi Kishimoto

Break the rules; there are no boundaries.
Conformity strangles the spirit. ~ Michael A. McLellan

The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules. ~ Ed Seykota

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to. ~ Joshua Cohen

When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules." The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business. ~ Leah D. Daughtry

Losers break the rules. There's no point in obeying them because if you obey the unwritten rules of civility, you're going to lose anyway. So why not just do what you can?' - Zachary Karabell ~ David Pietrusza

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. ~ Bill Veeck

To create new rules, use the power of love, courage, and kindness to break the rules. ~ Debasish Mridha

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules. ~ Ella Baker

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play and I'll always believe in that for as long as I'm playing. ~ Tom Brady

It's one thing to be a good guy because that's who you are. It's something else to be a good guy because you're too much a fucking pussy to break the rules. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. ~ Malcolm McLaren

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules. ~ John Sculley

Eros doomed! I doubt it ... eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face. ~ Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules. ~ Aaron Zigman

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. ~ Marvin Bell

break the rules pay the price ~ Brandon Mull

So, as one famous writer said, "You need to know the rules first before you can break the rules". I do know the rules, but sometimes I choose to skirt around the edges, not enough to draw a penalty but certainly enough to raise some eyebrows. ~ Stan Schatt

Tangled Moon ~ Sometimes you have to break the rules. Sometimes you have to let go of the past. And sometimes you have to accept the impossible. ~ Olivia Stocum

But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules. ~ Danny Wallace

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. ~ Douglas Wilson

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. ~ Robert Bringhurst

I'm sure there was some bloated-ego thing happening that I wasn't able to recognize, but I didn't feel like it would last for long. The weird thing is that long before we ever had success on a commercial level, I had already developed a sense of entitlement. I had an unnecessary, unwarranted, unfounded, self-centered sense of entitlement from childhood. In elementary school, I always felt like I should be the president of the school and that I was somehow above the law of the school and I could break the rules. When I moved in with my father, he was arrogant and full of himself, and that carried on to me, so I always had this sense of entitlement and a semi-false sense of self. I would steal because I had that sense, whether it was houses or cars or furniture or cactuses, whatever I understand how people can be cold and ruthless criminals, because I remember at that point in my life, I did not think of the consequences for anybody else involved except me. And the consequences for me were that I got what I wanted. ~ Anthony Kiedis

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways. ~ Thomas Bangalter

(Sean) "Sometimes the system fails. And sometimes you have to break the rules to get what you want. ~ Jami Alden

And magic exists to break the rules. ~ Jan Siegel

Remember: Life is short, break the rules ~ James Dean

Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light." - Madeline L'Engle

"There is freedom waiting for you on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?" - Erin Hanson

"Break the rules. That's my number one rule. I know the rules [of grammar] and I know how to break them."

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." – Carol Burnett

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ Robin E. Mason

Let's be honest, Carefree Scamps have rarely been accused of being the epitome of virtue, and that's because we intermittently break the rules. Yet despite this we are often charming enough for others around us to make allowances. "He's just prone to being misled. ~ Karl Wiggins

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. ~ Mark Twain

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't. ~ Simon McBurney

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job. ~ Jeff Beck

On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged. ~ Sam Keen

I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules. ~ Tom Brady

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.
You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight. ~ Paul Auster

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game. ~ Rickie Lee Jones

If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly. ~ Dan Gutman

Next Clay gave the house rules for living with theSorrentinos , which sounded a lot like the Ten
Commandments. Thou shall not lie, steal anything, kill anyone, disrespect your hosts or covet
any of Nick's girlfriends. And if you break the rules, you'll get your ass kicked and handed to you
in pieces - a part I suspect God left out. ~ Kelley Armstrong

Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and try for whatever reason to go about things a different way. Even if it is a simple sense of adventure, a sense of exploration. You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself. ~ Ed Paschke

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play ... but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of. ~ Alexander Fleming

Break the rules. Be a fighter. Any dream is possible if you are brave enough to do it YOUR way. ~ AJ Lee

When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history, [which] break the rules to get the villains, and [in doing] so become villains themselves. ~ Barrett Brown

I was inspired by movies like 'Jawbreaker'and 'Carrie' for the 'Break the Rules' video. I never went to prom when I was at school so this was kind of me living out my weird fantasy of what prom would be like in my head. I asked Rose McGowan to be in the video and I never ever thought she would say yes, but she did ... so she came to prom too ... And she trashed it. ;) ~ Charli XCX

Be free and unencumbered in your cooking style. Break the rules like a rock star! My point is that there is no right or wrong - only infinite possibilities to embrace and explore. If you attempt something that doesn't quite work, it's still a valuable experience - congratulations for trying! Don't sweat the details. Choose to fail and learn something new. ~ Julie Piatt

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

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance. ~ Claudia Black

For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules. ~ Simon McBurney

I really never break the rules. I'm not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I'll say it, but I'm not kind of like a born rebel. ~ Emma Watson

Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones. ~ Beau Willimon

Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it. ~ Kyra Davis

In a democratic society, there is always a struggle between the machinery of national security and press freedom, and the public's right to know is usually the loser. When our national security czars become, in effect, our media gatekeepers, we lose one of the essential cornerstones of a true democracy - an informed citizenry. Distracted by the manufactured flow of information produced by a news media that has fallen under the spell of its own official sources, and beguiled by militaristic and patriotic Hollywood myth-making, the American public is largely benighted when it comes to understanding the wars and covert violence carried out in our name. Spooked will explain exactly how this process occurs and what happens to journalists who dare to break the rules. The ~ Nicholas Schou

Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules. ~ M.B. Dallocchio

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. ~ Sebastian Thrun

Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up. ~ Tom Hodgkinson

Do not be an average person, average is not normal, average is lazy. set goals, dream more, break the rules and become a better person you want be. BE HUMBLE AND KIND ~ Futty-fuze

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want. ~ Gore Verbinski

Ur love can be succeed,just u have to break the rules.. ~ Alisha

Make mistakes, Lille. Walk on the cracks. Break the rules that were made to be broken. ~ L. H. Cosway

You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules. ~ Frederick Lenz

Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system. ~ Bahman Ghobadi

There are rules to the game but I don't believe that we need to be bound by them. If it feels appropriate to follow the rules, then by all means, follow them. If it feels better to break the rules, be creative and do it. ~ Anne-Rae Vasquez

It's funny what love can do to a person. It strips them of everything, even their instincts. It creates a new reality for you to adhere to, a new world where you break the rules just to keep the love intact. ~ Karina Halle

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. ~ Peter Coyote

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management. ~ Richard Grimes

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. ~ Walter Mosley

Flames burn so long as they are fed.
Rivers rage so long as it rains.
The sun rises so long as the earth rotates.
Prayers are answered so long as they are uttered sincerely.
Hope exists so long as there is a new day.
Miracles never cease so long as there is faith.
Love endures so long as kindness rules all actions.
Dreams thrive so long as they are pursued.
Never give up. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The art in question is much more about open communications. ~ Pearl Zhu

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. ~ Jack Bowman

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity. ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of disorder
or even order, in contrast
is when we observe something as a detached entity. Taken as a whole, the Universe is absolute, nothing being lacking, insignificant, or improvable. So, any such thing as a Theory of Everything (TOE) is a mere chimera. ~ Raheel Farooq

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight. ~ Emma Goldman

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. ~ Jamie Dimon

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette. ~ Garry Kasparov

Of course, spending time with family is always good. I love the outdoors, so if I get a chance to go out and hike or bike around, that's always great. If I don't have time to leave, just listening to some music that I love reenergizes me and gives me that break I need to go back to whatever it is I'm doing. ~ Anousheh Ansari

I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break. ~ James Cosmo

If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying. I am not the super-submission guy, I am not the one-punch KO guy, so I am not the most feared guy in the worldBut I will not quit, I will not break and I will fight you like a dog for every second of every round. I am not a super-talented guy, I'm just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail. ~ Forrest Griffin