Rumor Quotes - Page 13

• History: A distillation of rumor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Distillation

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.200

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• Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

  Evan Esar

  Believe, Denial, Denied

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• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

  Alistair Cooke

  Running, Couple, Men

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• The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

  Frederick William Borden

  States, Resignation

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• Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Waste, Mime, Despite

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• New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

  Craig Kilborn

  Cutting, Giving, President

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• Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

  Christoph Waltz

  Truth, Reality, True Or False

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• I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

  Zac Efron

  Gay, Way, Raised

  "'I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay' - Zac Efron opens up about homosexuality" by Corinne Redfern, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2012.

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• There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel

  Ice Cube

  Giving, Alcohol, Drug

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• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Order, Wind

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• In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.

  John Burroughs

  New York, Air, Two

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.49, Syracuse University Press

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• It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

  Elliott Abrams

  Kings, Couple, Thinking

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• I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crazy, Real, Pregnancy

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• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Literature, Legends, Nobody Knows

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• The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

  Stephen Crane

  Army, Fog, Earth

  Stephen Crane “The Red Badge of Courage”, Lulu.com

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• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  Warwick Davis

  People, Interesting, Computer

  Interview with Brian Linder, www.theforce.net.

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• Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.

  John Aylmer

  Nice, Women, Two

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• There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Nature, Stars

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

  Tom Clancy

  Zenith, Firsts

  Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney (2013). “Command Authority”, p.298, Penguin

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

  Waylon Jennings

  Mean, Eagles, Lame

  Song: The Eagle, Album: The Eagle, 1990

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• And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

  Erich von Stroheim

  Self, Sincerity, Characterization

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• My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Gossip, Focus, Misperception

  Source: content.time.com

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• [The rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio on set was raped by a bear] was as silly as Lady Gaga bumping him or moving his arm out of the way [at the Golden Globes]. People straight be bored.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Silly, Moving, Bored

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't try to hide our relationship with Jay-Z. There's nothing to hide. People see us,
  but we just don't talk about it, and I think that's absolutely helped us. People give us space and respect us. The minute you start talking about it, that's all people want to talk about. And then the really big rumors start happening.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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