rules Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about rules.
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”
- Thomas Reid
“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
- William Hazlitt
“The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?”
- David Foster Wallace
“I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.”
- Vladimir Kramnik
“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”
- Bill Cosby
“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.”
- Anna Lindh
“Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.”
- Mary Douglas
“Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.”
- Phillip E. Johnson