Rumours Quotes - Page 2

• Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Mean, Advice

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• Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dog, Father, Taken

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.8, Vintage

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• Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

  Perry Como

  Careers, Cameras, Video

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• We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over

  Andy Burnham

  Drama, Mills, Humour

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• There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.

  China Mieville

  Death, Knowing, Doors

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• I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

  Ajay Devgan

  Want, Comment, Personal Life

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• The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

  William Hazlitt

  Voice, Echoes, Firsts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

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• Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song.

  Lord Dunsany

  Song, Spring, Twilight

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, p.4, Booklassic

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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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• Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

  Paul Scott

  Gossip, Population, Servant

  Paul Scott (1998). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.299, University of Chicago Press

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• I landed on Gay Pride and I couldn't believe my eyes! Not only were gay people real - I had only heard rumours - but they had parades. There were men covered in glitter bound together with furry handcuffs. I felt like I was in outer space, I honestly thought I had arrived at the happiest place on earth.

  Pamela Anderson

  Real, Believe, Eye

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

  Peter Porter

  Art, Paradise, Gates

  Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Break Up, Exercise, Drug Use

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• Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.

  David Lack

  Science, Garden, Museums

  David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.23, CUP Archive

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• It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Government, Long Ago

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at dinner in honour of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, www.margaretthatcher.org. May 10, 1979.

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• 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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• As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.

  Nick Denton

  Trying, Stories, Helping

  "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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• No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

  Hesiod

  Spread

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• On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.

  Sandra Bullock

  Broken, Dating, Romance

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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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• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  Aeschines

  Lying, Ears, Penetrate

  "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

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• I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.

  Nicole Richie

  Breakup, Nice, Heart

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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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• Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Stars

  "Equality". The Spectator, Volume CLXXI, archive.spectator.co.uk. August 27, 1943.

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