Gossip Quotes - Page 23

• Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Gentleman, Dresses

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.333, Penguin

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• It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

  Anne Hathaway

  Taken, Might, Selling

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• The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Real, Celebrity Gossip

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• We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.

  Kristen Bell

  Sweet, Mean, Insecurity

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.

  John Travolta

  News, Want, Input

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Party, Filters, News

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• I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

  Harriet Walter

  Thinking, Circles, Long

  "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.

  Paris Hilton

  Hurt, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Paris Hilton: 'I think I am a good role model'". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.today.com. August 17, 2006.

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• Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

  Andy Bell

  Reality, People, Details

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• Data without generalization is just gossip.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Data, Generalization

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Mom, Fashion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

  Eddie Izzard

  America, Trying, Attention

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

  George Harrison

  Divorce, People, Stories

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

  Alicia Keys

  School, Pressure, Clique

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her.

  Emma Roberts

  Feuds, Emma, Mets

  "The Family Moan". E!, January 12, 2006.

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• Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Mind, Has Beens

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• There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.

  China Mieville

  Death, Knowing, Doors

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• The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

  David M. Raup

  Television, Maelstrom, Extinction

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• Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back.

  Bob Burg

  Nice, Games, Play

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• Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
  [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

  Plautus

  Ears, Tongue, Should

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• Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

  Ann Landers

  Indulge In, People, Littles

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

  Liang Qichao

  People, Slave, Treats

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• Gossip is irresponsible communication.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Communication, Irresponsible

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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