Breaking Rules Quotes (page 3)

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• football
• evening
• god

Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him. Christopher Hitchens

• parents
• children
• moments

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule. John Irving

• rock
• expense
• dear

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear . Freddie Mercury

• love
• loved
• keeps

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. Anthony de Mello

• love
• book
• writing

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

• girls
• serious
• my wife

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan. Corey Feldman

• people
• new
• old

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones. Faye Dunaway

• ruling
• ruled
• rule

I like breaking the rules. Lexa Doig

• writing
• new
• wanted

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. Jeanette Winterson

• color
• colorful
• ruled

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

• merely
• tested
• try

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

• people
• weird
• attention

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

• good
• wife
• goodness

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules. Katherine Heigl

• new
• ruled
• too

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. Ted Turner

• change
• women
• movie

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will. Naomi Watts