Gossip Quotes - Page 24

• Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

  Conor Oberst

  Soul, Faces, Towns

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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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• Data without generalization is just gossip.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Data, Generalization

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

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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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• Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

  Andre Norton

  Often Is, Rumor, Reports

  Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.273, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

  Shana Alexander

  Rumor, Sound, Wave

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

  Margaret Deland

  Amusement, Insult, Victim

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Communication, Character

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.137, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

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• A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brain, Wish, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.124, Harvard University Press

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• When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Myth

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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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• I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.

  Taylor Swift

  Reading, News, Ruins

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• 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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• 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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