Rulebook Quotes & Sayings

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount. — Jeff Zucker

It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone. — Sandy Alderson

We can't improve what we don't assess. — Michael Hyatt

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine. — Isabel Allende

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. — Meir Kahane

America overflows with specious 'victims' demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone as defined in the rulebook. What a concept. — George Will

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble. — James Anthony Froude

You can't learn to play soccer by reading the rulebook, you can't learn to play the piano by studying sheets of music, and you can't learn to cook by reading recipes. — Tina Seelig

I tried to be grown up but I have no interest in abiding by the adult rulebook. I want to do fun things that make me happy [ ... ] You might call me a child. Good. For if adults had even the slightest in-the-moment joy of a child then frankly the world would be a better place. — Miranda Hart

When you read the Bible on its own terms, you discover that it doesn't behave itself like a holy rulebook should. — Peter Enns

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. — John Lydon

One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations. — Ethan Hawke

holding
the evening
tremblingly close
to me

i weep
into
the sun

letting
the burden
of hope
lift off my chest

i realize

this is what
it means
to be free. — Sanober Khan

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays. — Jodi Picoult

Maybe collecting bruises was the only way to learn how to fight. — Patrick W. Carr

There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook. — Jasper Fforde

No, you're not shooting me down, kiddo ... Because I'm not really trying. When I do try, you'll know it. And then you'll throw the whole damn rulebook out the window. — Karina Halle

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them. — Mason Cooley

Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe. — Jon Hendricks

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have. — Lawrence Lessig

We can't believe how many gays there are in heavy metal, people like ... — Biff Byford

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook. — Billy Corgan

You know, the rulebook states anything agreed through sexual manipulation is thrown out after the act. — Kristen Ashley

Be gentle and humble in heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out. — Zakk Wylde

See, far above arrogance and selfishness on the rankings of undesirable Lifestyle traits, topping the lengthy list of carnal sins, occupying its very own stratosphere of unforgivable
reprehensibility, is lying. Without question, fibbing is the fastest way to secure a one-way trip to blackball status in the swing community. So assured is a liar's exile from the Lifestyle that should a perjurer come clean about a material untruth and still secure playtime, that individual will have rewritten the entire swing rulebook. And no matter how enticing it may be to rewrite history, I do not recommend attempting it. Not unless you're lusting after a celibate existence. — Daniel Stern

Many Christians have been taught that the Bible is Truth downloaded from heaven, God's rulebook, a heavenly instructional manual - follow the directions and out pops a true believer; deviate from the script and God will come crashing down on you with full force. If anyone challenges this view, the faithful are taught to "defend the Bible" against these anti-God attacks. Problem solved. That is, until you actually read the Bible. Then you see that this rulebook view of the Bible is like a knockoff Chanel handbag - fine as long as it's kept at a distance, away from curious and probing eyes. — Peter Enns

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. — Ben Harper

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can. — Greg Rucka

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don't have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that's too much. All they want is to be assured that there's a home fire cooking, that there are two foremen and a rulebook, and that there's someone to tuck them in at night. — Carew Papritz

As an atheist, I see nothing "wrong" in believing in a God. I don't think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that's fine with me. It's when belief starts infringing on other people's rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn't kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It's strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are. — Ricky Gervais

Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise. — Nancy Gibbs

Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process. — Tavi Gevinson

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us. — Pearl Cleage