Unwritten Rules Quotes

• There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Funny, Success, Giving

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• Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

  Dan Brown

  Sky Is The Limit, Sky's The Limit, Infringement

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Air, Iron

  Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). “Hal Porter”, Univ of Queensland Pr

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• There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Girl, School, Mean

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Stars, Quality

  "MPD Opens Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward 4/16". www.broadwayworld.com. April 16, 2009.

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• There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

  Robert Carlyle

  Decision, Say Anything, Directors

  "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.

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• This place is full of unwritten rules.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Unwritten

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Business Success, Networking, Unwritten

  "Women: How to Thrive in Financial Services" by Skiddy von Stade, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Real, Broken, Want

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• Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

  Marco Rubio

  Simple, Ideas, Alternatives

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• It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Annoyed, Want, Mates

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.

  Ja Rule

  Track, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's kind of an unwritten rule, Don't call your captain out at a Ryder Cup, win, loss or draw, you just don't.

  Graeme McDowell

  Loss, Golf, Winning

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• ,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

  Billy Connolly

  Soccer, Football, People

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• One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

  Gwen Ifill

  Presidential, Looks, News

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

  Paul Mooney

  Hollywood Films, Black, Unwritten

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• It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Moving On, Break Up, Girl

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• I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where they two mutually inspire each other to live– if I’ m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Girl, Boys, Expression

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• There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Saving, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Running, Kind

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• Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

  George Akerlof

  Economic Models, Psychology, Cooking

  "An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales". Book by George Akerlof, October 26, 1984.

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• Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Powerful, Successful, Men

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.26, Knopf

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• Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Animal, Average, Personality

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• These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of unwritten rules of how campaigns are run, and everybody has followed those rules consistently over the decades. And no one has really even seriously thought about breaking them.

  Ryan Grim

  Running, Party, Presidential

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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