Rumor Quotes - Page 3

• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Ambition, Frustration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Rumour was the messenger
  Of defamation, and so swift, that none
  Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

  Robert Pollok

  Evil, Messengers, Firsts

  Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277

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• Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dad, Pregnancy, History

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.

  Bobby Clarke

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• Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?

  Tom Cruise

  People, Say Anything, Want

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• Denying rumors gave them more power.

  E. C. Myers

  E. C. Myers (2016). “Fair Coin”, p.16, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

  Unknown

  Real, Believe, Fake

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• There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Gossip, Effort, Purpose

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Memory... is an internal rumor.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Internals

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• The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Vacuums, Poison, Misrepresentation

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• The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...

  James C. Scott

  Dream, People, Giving

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

  Annie Dillard

  Violence, Mystery, Ifs

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I think people start rumors because it creates interest and it makes people look at things and become more interested in what they're looking at.

  Keith Carradine

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it up.

  James Alexander Thom

  Blow, Air, Firsts

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• Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Cat, Wish

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• There are rumors that there is a John Edwards sex tape. People say it's twenty minutes of Edwards caressing and stroking...And that's just the part where he fixes his hair.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Hair, People

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• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wall, Order

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• I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Hate, Civil War, Spy

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• I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

  Charles Rangel

  Want, Should, Bases

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• There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

  Bob Woodward

  Business, People, Literature

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• The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.

  John Daniel

  Rivers, Environmental, Flow

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Art, Winning

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• I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Girl

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• I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Coaching, Interest, I Can

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• It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that the hundreds of murders historically attributed to the werewolves of Gévaudan were actually caused by wolves. As with all witchhunts, the endless battle against ignorance requires one to always keep an open mind and sharp wits when considering such rumors - especially the rumors we choose to enjoy.

  Zeena Schreck

  Motivation, Ignorance, Political

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