#rule

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confrontation #dinner #dinner table #formal #governed

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#business #easier #first #i #i think

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged. ↗

— James Chanos

#american people #clearly #competent #elucidated #fair

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking. ↗

— Julia Child

#cooking #cuisine #diet #fancy #got

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#different #reading #rules #talking #them

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#after #alcohol #also #before #between

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.' ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#about #act #be yourself #being #business

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#exception #parts #rule #why #women

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#chess #choose #either #far #follow

I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#death