Gossip Quotes - Page 25

• The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Crow, World

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• The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

  Chrystos

  Tree, Fruit, Bitter

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• Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Blessed, Spread, Knows

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• Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.

  William H. McMaster

  Real, Men, Order

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• I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

  Jeff Garlin

  Hate, Evil, Cellphone

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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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• 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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• 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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• When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Myth

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• As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Discovery, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.14, M-y books ltd

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• And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Ooh La La, Blake Lively Talks to Florence Welch About Clothes, Men and More!". Interview with Florence Welch, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Character, Dublin, Might

  Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.264, University of Georgia Press

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• In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

  Steven Weber

  Men, Media, Tone

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Hypocrisy, Cover Ups

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• It's funny what you really see when you're the subject of the completely bizarre gossip magazine industry. It's just like, 'WHAT?!?' All this stuff with Emilie [de Ravin, his costar in Remember Me] as well. The tabloids say stuff like 'They went on a date to an Indian restaurant.' We were doing a scene! There's a film crew there!

  Robert Pattinson

  Magazines, Tabloids, Stuff

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• I love Gossip Girl. I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like Top Chef.

  Jessica Stroup

  Girl, Reality, Chef

  "90210's Jessica Stroup Gives Us The Scoop!". Seventeen Magazine Intreview, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2009.

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• With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

  John Astin

  Gossip Girl, Needs, Hallucinations

  "Fictional character: Buddy Ryan". "Night Court (TV Series). From Snoop to Nuts: Part 2", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

  Craig Shoemaker

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Falling In Love, Children, Husband

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• I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

  Amos Oz

  Falling In Love, Jealous, Volcanoes

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• I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

  Daphne Guinness

  Book, Tvs, Presses

  Interview with Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.

  Harlan Ellison

  Crazy, Data, News

  interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.

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• I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.

  Robert Montgomery

  Christian, War, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Weather, Taught

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press

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• There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, Secret

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.30

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