When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into... →
Benoit Mandelbrot
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
Charles C. Mann
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's... →
Marilyn Manson
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
Hilary Mantel
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules... →
Judith Martin
Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the... →
I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but I certainly don't... →
Matisyahu
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the... →
James C. Maxwell