Rumours Quotes - Page 3

• A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
  [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

  Ovid

  Laughing, Mind, Conscious

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• Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

  Gao Xingjian

  Baby, Men, Intelligent

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Cities, Way

  Michael Ondaatje (2007). “Vintage Ondaatje”, p.80, Vintage

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• Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

  Shane Claiborne

  Crazy, War, Believe

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• The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Order, Support

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

  Steven Spielberg

  Eye, Sometimes, Deny

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• The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.

  Bobby Hull

  Two, Hands, Parent

  "One on One with Bobby Hull". www.hhof.com. December 11, 2001.

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• History is the distillation of rumour.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Distillation

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• Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

  Vincent Klyn

  World, Lasts, Misery

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• You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

  Werner Herzog

  Fighting, Wilder

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.

  Shaun Derry

  Football, Rooms, Palaces

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• Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

  Aeschylus

  Agamemnon

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• In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!"

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Hate, Katniss

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

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• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  Aeschines

  Lying, Ears, Penetrate

  "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

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• "The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who are almost crying because they can't believe they're seeing the Rumours five back again, they can't believe their eyes. It's almost like a family reunion on stage, there's no angst, there's no animosity, there's just tremendous amount of friendship.

  Christine McVie

  Believe, Eye, People

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• I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

  Adele

  Children, House, True God

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• By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

  Jonathan Raban

  Taken, Cities, Detroit

  Jonathan Raban (2011). “Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America”, p.303, Vintage

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• For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Moss

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.215

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• Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

  Herbert Spencer

  Reality, Rumor, May

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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• IMDB is ridiculous... First of all, they had me down as my height being 5ft 7ins. I'm 5ft 10ins. But now they've got me down as 6ft 1ins and three quarters. They also have me down as doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I wish they had me down as doing Francis Ford Coppola's next film. That would be a great rumour.

  Skandar Keynes

  Wish, Dawn, Would Be

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.

  May Sarton

  Voice, Space, Silence

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• Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

  James de la Vega

  Business, Winning, Games

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Moments, Internals

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Internet, Horrible

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