
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
Source: The Elements of Typographic Style
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
Source: The Elements of Typographic Style
It's So Easy, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty (1958)
Song lyrics, Singles
“Learn all the rules… then break them.”
Lea's Book of Rules for the World (May 2000) Rule # 10
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
"Thirty-two Statements About Writing Poetry" http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/400_opportunities/430_gettingpub/bell.cfm, statement # 5, The Writer's Chronicle, Commemorative Issue (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).
“Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.”
L'Idealisme esaay in Le Chemin de Velours 1902
Other
“We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that.”
Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were so taking many drugs they wouldn't know it anyway.
"Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold", in The Independent (25 March 2005) http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/charlotte-rampling-in-from-the-cold-529788.html.
“And if my mind breaks up
In all so many ways
I know the meaning of
The words, “I love you””
King of Trees
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 113