Quotes About Rumored

It is rumored that the plague has broken out here, but the report is empty and false; by the favor of Christ everything is safe and quiet.

Maybe Beijing kept tearing itself down to bury its unexamined past. Memories didn't stick to the sleek sides of skyscrapers. Make the sofas thick, the music loud, the televisions large, the cars fast. Blur and round and smooth the past until it becomes as rumored as this disappearing hútòng. Older people will say it was there, they saw it. Their younger listeners will nod politely, unable to imagine something they'd never seen.

It don't mean a damned thing," Colonel Parker was rumored to have remarked on Elvis's death. "It's just like when he was away in the army.

And despite being married with four children, it was rumored that President Banana was partial to men, a somewhat precarious position given that Mugabe had denounced gays as "lower than pigs and dogs," declared them to be "a colonial invention, unknown in African tradition," and passed laws punishing consensual homosexuality with ten years' hard labor.