“As long as you follow the rules, you'll be fine. Rule number one: You will obey every rule I say after rule number one. Rule number two: None but the righteous shall see God. And since we ain't got no righteous people in here, God ain't gonna have to worry about your shitty prayers. So that means I'…”— Charles Murray, Albert Rackham, Chance Kelly, imdb.com
“Press secretaries can't cry! It's, like, a rule!”— Jenna Bans, Shonda Rhimes, Abby Whelan, Darby Stanchfield, imdb.com
“Your problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren't.”— Noah Hawley, Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com
“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself. But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, and it was to the greatest athlete I ever coached.”— Bear Bryant, content.time.com
“I'm a conservative kind of guy, so I do have these rules—I won't talk about this, this, and this. And I don't like talking about topical things. I like talking about little things, like lint.”— Steven Wright, avclub.com
“You're on a jet, you're five miles in the air, you're going 500 miles an hour, and you ask someone to bring you another Coke. That is as weird to me as any joke I said last night. I think that's why people identify with me, because there are a billion pieces of information, and there's so much chaos…”— Steven Wright, avclub.com
“The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play.”— Dennis Lehane, Marla Daniels, Maria Broom, imdb.com
“I think it’s important for people to have their own sense of style—a personal style. I think there are certain rules, especially when you’re English, because you’re brought up on ‘this is how a gentleman should dress.’ If you’re lucky enough to be able to afford it, you can go to Savile Row and have…”— David Beckham, mrporter.com
“Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB! Third rule of Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth…”— Chuck Palahniuk, Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
“The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do.”— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“Rule number one: Don't bother sucking up. I already hate you.”— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Miranda Bailey, Chandra Wilson, imdb.com
“The rules here are pretty simple. There are only two. Rule number one: you listen. Number two: you pass it on. Hopefully, neither one will be easy. It's not supposed to be easy, or I would have emailed you an MP3. When you're done listening to all 13 sides, because there are 13 sides to every story,…”— Brian Yorkey, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com
“It is a strong argument for democracy that governments regulated by principles of accountability, respect for public opinion and the supremacy of just laws are more likely than an all-powerful ruler or ruling class, uninhibited by the need to honour the will of the people, to observe the traditional…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com