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The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. Third rule of Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: no shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight. Fight Club ***** 1999 starring Edward Norton & Brad Pitt & Helena Bonham Carter & Meatloaf & Jared Leto et al, director David Fincher
They say I don’t play by the rules – their rules. They’re quite right. I don’t. Jeremy Corbyn
‘This is urban warfare’ … ‘The police in return were firing rubber bullets’ … ‘The protests were spreading across the city and no-one knew what the rules were any more.’ This World: Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom II, reporters, BBC 2022
In our world there are rules: don’t rat on your associates; don’t get high on your own supply; don’t piss in someone else’s pie. Staten Island 2009 aka Little New York staring Ethan Hawke & Vincent d’Onofrio & Seymour Cassel & Julianne Nicholson & Ian Brennan & Lynn Cohen & J D Daniels & Michael Hogan et al, director James DeMonaco, mobster Tommy to tortured man
In Washington, Lay [Enron] became part of a new crusade to liberate businessmen from the rules and regulations of government. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2005
Manipulations of the rules of our economy are happening across our major industries … How do these industries manage to get rules that benefit them? Saving Capitalism, 2017
We bend more rules than the Catholic Church. The Sopranos s4e4: The Weight, Johnny Sack, HBO 2002
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. George Carlin
I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions. George Carlin
I create nothing. I own. We make the rules. Wall Street 1987 starring Michael Douglas & Charlie Sheen & Daryl Hannah & Martin Sheen & John C McGinley & Terence Stamp & James Karen & Hal Holbrook & Sean Young & James Spader et al, Gordon Gecko
Rules are not laws. Laws are for cowards. Rules are for men. That’s why we have rules of honour. ZeroZeroZero I: The Shipment, Mexican sellers, Sky Atlantic 2020
The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.
Rule number two: Everything lasts forever. Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River
There are rules, Garak. Even in a war. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e2: Rocks and Shoals, O’Brien
This appears to be a region of space that doesn’t have many rules. Star Trek: Voyager s2e14: Alliances, Janeway in briefing room
Anyone who agrees to play by our rules: no killing, no stealing, and no giving up. Star Trek: Voyager s7e15: The Void, Janeway to Chakotay & Tuvok
The wonders of creation are derived from the simplest of rules. Jim Al-Khalili, The Secret Life of Chaos, BBC 2010
Don’t fuck with another man’s vehicle – it’s against the rules. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Vincent
You’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re not savages. We’re English. And the English are best at everything. So we’ll have lots of rules. William Golding, The Lord of the Flies
The rules. You’re breaking the rules. Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got. Lord of the Flies 1963 starring James Aubrey & Tom Chapin & Hugh Edwards & Roger elwin & Tom Gaman & David Surtees & Simon Surtees & Nicholas Hammond et al, director Peter Brook, Ralph
There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art than in adhering to them, and ... There is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art than in the works of a little genius who not only knows but scrupulously observes them. Joseph Addison
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, December 1769
This God is too fond of rules. The Ten Commandments 2006 ABC mini-series starring Dougray Scott & Naveen Andrews & Omar Sharif & Linus Roache & Paul Rhys, director Robert Dornhelm, music Randy Edelman, victim
I don’t think you even know the rules. Boardwalk Empire s2e25: Gimcrack & Bunkum, Nucky to Jimmy, HBO 2011
You know the rules – no fights on the floor. They Shoot Horses Don't They? 1969 starring Jane Fonda & Michael Sarrazin & Susannah York & Gig Young & Red Buttons & Bonnie Bedelia & Bruce Dern & Allyn Ann McLerie & Robert Fields & Michael Conrad et al, director Sydney Pollack, bouncer
Are you guys going to play according to the rules or not? Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 starring James Cagney & Pat O’Brien & Humphrey Bogart & Ann Sheridan & George Bancroft & Billy Halp & Bobby Jordan & Leo Gorcey & Gabriel Dell & Huntz Hall et al, director Michael Curtiz
Rule two: no names. The Transporter 2002 starring Jason Statham & Shu Qi & Francois Berleand & Matt Schulze & Ric Young et al, directors Cory Yuen & Louis Leterrier, Statham
Rule three: never look in the package. ibid.
Sorry, I’m a bit of a stickler for paperwork. Where would we be if we didn’t follow the correct procedures? Brazil 1985 starring Jonathan Pryce & Robert De Niro & Katherine Helmond & Ian Holm & Bob Hoskins & Michael Palin & Kim Griest & Bob Hoskins & Jim Broadbent et al, director Terry Gilliam, Sam
Do not speak to me of rules. This is war. This is not a game of cricket. The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 starring Alec Guinness & William Holden & Jack Hawkins & Ann Sears & Sessue Hayakawa & James Donald & Geoffrey Horne & Heihachiro Okawa & Keiichiro Katsumoto et al, director David Lean
This is the story of a nation with a deep love of rules, and an even bigger love of drink. Timeshift: The Rules of Drinking, BBC 2012
If we create our own rules we have a chance. Mick Jackson, A Very British Coup 1988 ***** starring Ray McAnally & Alan MacNaughton & Keith Allen & Geoffrey Beavers & Marjorie Yates & Jim Carter & Philip Madoc & Jeremy Young et al; see novel Chris Mullins, Harry at cabinet meeting