Bending Rules Quotes & Sayings

Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering. — Jeannette Walls

We are a species driven by innovation and creativity. The world is full of information and any number of things to learn and discover at any given time, so if you are bored, it's your choice. As such, you're not allowed to complain. — Ginger Voight

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. — Masha Tupitsyn

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness. — Joseph Stefano

success is not always measured in terms of dollars earned or turnover. It is measured in terms of the difference you have made to the people around you. — Ravi Subramanian

Freedom is yours when you end the battle. As you can see, the answer is short — Vadim Zeland

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun — David Crystal

In America, being able to get things done, especially if it's by bending rules, making exceptions, or calling in a favor, is the way to show power. In France, being able to say non (especially to a bureaucratically legitimate request) is the way to show power. And piss me off. — Vivian Swift

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism. — Julia Cameron

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival. — Edward Snowden

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night. — Woodrow Wilson

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that. — Amy Schumer

Professional psychics use astrology all the time. Why? I don't know. I would think that a true psychic would be the last person who would have any use for astrology, even if it were true. — Peter Huston

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn't-eat. — Helene Cixous

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting. — Herbie Mann