Gossip Quotes - Page 27

• It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

  Robin Meade

  Being Yourself, Energy, Negative

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• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

  Mark Twain

  Fake People, Truth, Inspirational Life

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• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

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• All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

  Charles de Lint

  Rain, Mean, Voice

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• Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.

  Chris Hedges

  Real, Ecosystems, Surveillance State

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• Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Color, Judging

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• People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, People, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Nov 11, 2011

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• A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Snakes

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• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

  Merrit Malloy

  People, Irony, Projection

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• Gossip is the social mosquito.

  Myrtle Reed

  Mosquitoes, Social

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do it, then you are siphoning off the energy needed to actually do the work. Your words become an energy leak.

  Sonia Choquette

  Energy, Use, Flow

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want”, p.183, Crown Archetype

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• I really try to understand what people are saying and answer as honestly as I can. But sometimes it's like they try to tie you into knots. That's why I mostly steer clear of the popular press. I try not to read . . . Well, I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

  Daphne Guinness

  Book, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.

  Loretta Chase

  Drama, Men, Dresses

  Loretta Chase (2012). “Scandal Wears Satin”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Have you ever taken a sober look at any of the mutants who run these Hollywood-gossip sites? What a crew! None of them could ever, ever be stars, which is why they're always trying to "take the piss" from those they envy.

  Jim Goad

  Running, Stars, Taken

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Mistake, Ideas, People

  Quoted in Francis Klagsbrun's TheFirst Ms. Reader We are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables (p. 67)

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• Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

  Kim Cattrall

  Jobs, Spit, Respectable

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• gossip is just the small change of conversation.

  Rae Foley

  Small Changes, Conversation

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• Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.

  David Mumford

  Art, Real, Unique

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• Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

  Margot Asquith

  Rumor

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• The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Criticism, Rumor, Rolling

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• At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

  John Dufresne

  Heart, Fiction, Trouble

  Source: therumpus.net

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• gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Fiction

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• For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, History, Listening

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• Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mean, Needs

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