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Rules Quotes


"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."


"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."


"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."


"A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline."


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


"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."


"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."


"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."
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