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Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time. -- Terry Goodkind
I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte. -- Fredrika Bremer
I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys." -- Tony Palermo
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx! -- J. G. Holland
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. -- Charles Davenport
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. -- Jim Crace
It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up. -- Kristin Cavallari
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book. -- John le Carre
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. -- Jodi Picoult
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? -- Rebecca West
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. -- Spike Lee
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime. -- Howard Fast
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
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need. -- Kathleen Hanna
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. -- Bo Bennett
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. -- John Perry Barlow
I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. -- Tom Stoppard
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
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. -- Christopher Lasch
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. -- Nadine Gordimer
For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family. -- Michael Nutter
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. -- Dick Gregory
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
Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving. -- Sam Hunt
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. -- Kurt Huber
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
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
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. -- George Will
The future is unwritten. -- Joe Strummer
This place is full of unwritten rules. -- Alexander Gordon Smith
The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched. -- Bruce Sterling
I'm up to my ears in unwritten words. -- J. D. Salinger
For the book unwritten is the book burned. -- Stan Rice
The future's unwritten. It's what we make of it. -- Doc Brown
Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business. -- Sallie Krawcheck
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face! -- George Eliot
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. -- Carl Jung
The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws. -- Seneca the Younger
'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment. -- Richard Dawkins
...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga. -- Sylvain Tesson
Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought. -- Emily Haines
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. -- Rob Sheffield
I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten. -- Heidi W. Durrow
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten -- Richard Bach
What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten. -- Mitch Albom
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. -- Natasha Bedingfield
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. -- Lady Frieda Harris
Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. -- Italo Calvino
If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. -- John Green
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
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.' -- Aristotle
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend. -- Marion Barry
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract. -- John Green
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
I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate. -- Bob Monkhouse
Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks. -- Brian Tracy
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. -- Bo Bennett
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
,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
I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable? -- Lykke Li
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind's eye the ideal of a better or a best. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law. -- Diogenes Laertius
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
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten. -- Agnes Repplier
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
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with oneâ??s personal history and that of oneâ??s friends, interwoven with oneâ??s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography. -- Alfred Austin
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians. -- Shirley Chisholm
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change. -- Olivia Wilde

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