Rumor Quotes - Page 16

• Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

  Virgil

  Uplifting, Clouds, Evil

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• There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

  Sean Young

  Absence, Shows, Spread

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

  Shana Alexander

  Gossip, Sound, Wave

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.

  John Newton

  Art, Hands, Giving

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• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  Venus Williams

  Comment

  "What happened at Indian Wells?". Interview with Joel Drucker, www.espn.com. March 11, 2009.

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• We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Issues, Agency, Sensitive

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• All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.

  Bette Midler

  Believe, Gay, Cruise

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• Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Life, Lying, Careers

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• There's a rumor that NBC is going to have Tom Brokaw fill in temporarily as the NBC News anchor. When asked why, a network spokesperson said, 'Because the only other NBC person we have is Bill Cosby.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Nbc, Anchors, News

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• A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

  Peter L. Berger

  Years, Cities, May

  Peter L. Berger (1969). “A Rumor of Angels”

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Gossip, Criticism, Rolling

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• The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

  Herbert Gold

  Eye, Artist, Imagination

  Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

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• I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

  Learned Hand

  Gossip, Inquiry, Spirit

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

  Ben Mezrich

  People, Facts, Wikipedia

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• There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

  Merle Haggard

  Police, Looks, Stories

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• The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

  Terence McKenna

  Knows, Felt

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• You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

  David Carradine

  Thinking, Inevitable, Knows

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• One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Cities, Knows

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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