Quotes About Rumors

Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.

Light, women would believe anything about a man so long as it was bad. And the worse it was, the more they had to talk about it.

It often takes great courage to not let rumors and talk of doom and gloom affect your doubts and fears. But a savvy investor knows that the seemingly worst of times is actually the best of times to make money. When everyone else is too afraid to act, they pull the trigger and are rewarded.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

Well, I won't. Ludovic Speed and Theodora Dix live in Middle Grafton and Mrs. Rachel says he has been courting her for a hundred years. Won't they soon be too old to get married, Anne? I hope Gilbert won't court YOU that long. When are you going to be married, Anne? Mrs. Lynde says it's a sure thing. Mrs. Lynde is a— began Anne hotly; then stopped. Awful old gossip, completed Davy calmly. That's what every one calls her. But is it a sure thing, Anne? I want to know. You're

What is the matter with Harrison Miller, anyway?

Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear.

Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

Then there's the sex business. For example, there are persistent rumors that Bush has girlfriends. Remember that "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," look at Barbara, and there are three possibilities: George is a normal male attracted to younger women and he cheats; George chooses to have sex exclusively with a woman who looks like a Hallmark greeting card grandmother; George is a eunuch. Think about it—which George would you want running the country?

Democratic representative Pat Schroeder called him "the most evil man in America." Reverend Pat Robertson said, "Lee Atwater has used every dirty trick known to mankind" and "the Republican campaign was blamed for planting specious rumors about the mental-health history of Michael Dukakis." (William Greider, Rolling Stone, 1/12/89)

There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?

Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." And the room exploded into noise.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

Dead girl walking" the boys say in the halls. "Tell us your secrets" the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

I knew I wouldn't get an invitation. I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.

We'd itch the vermin feasting on our flesh and share the day's many rumors: The King had declared peace. No, the King was sending German and Russian mercenaries to destroy us. A ball of fire as big as a man's head fell from heaven to Hatboro - a good omen. But there'd been an earthquake near York just as a cat gave birth to puppies, which meant the worst.

She was a Celebrity Fucker.

Two things spread quickly: gossip and a forest fire"—Cypriot proverb.) I

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It's really sad, because that's what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

People gossip even when they don't care,

Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.

We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.