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Quotes About Rumors

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
~ Terry Pratchett
Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.
~ Terry Pratchett
Don't worry," said Swires. "The old witch hasn't been seen for years. They say she was done up good and proper by a couple of young tearaways." "Kids of today," commented Rincewind. "I blame the parents," said Twoflower.
~ Terry Pratchett
I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.
~ Bob McNair
Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.
~ Mariah Carey
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
~ Kate Atkinson
Do we know anything about Drummond – apart from what the cheese-woman said about his fondness for horse-racing?
~ Kate Saunders
I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I know that Marian Wallace was your girlfriend." "That isn't true." "Don't lie! I know that she came here to kill herself in your front yard. I know that she left Maya for you, but you either were too lazy or too much of a coward to claim her.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I am saying that these so-called signs and wonders of Jesus raising a little girl and the man, Lazarus, from the dead are unsubstantiated rumors and legends. There is no resurrection and there is no afterlife spoken of in the Scriptures. Pharisees draw their arguments from non-Scriptural sources and traditions, which we Sadducees simply do not recognize as authoritative. We alone stand on the Word of our God." Annas had a snooty arrogance to him.
~ Brian Godawa
Word can travel fast when it wants to, but the truth? The truth is rarely so reliable.
~ Brian Wood
Winifred ismét teherbe esett. Bayreuthban még évtizedekkel kés?bb is mesélték, hogy a terhessége elején szüntelenül hányó fiatalasszonyt Siegfried sopánkodva követte a vécére: "De Wini, azt a drága ételt!
~ Brigitte Hamann
the whaleman is wrapped by influences all tending to make his fancy pregnant with many a mighty birth. No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies
~ Herman Melville
For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
~ Herman Melville
not even if you speak of Agamemnon
~ Homer
Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.
~ Ilona Andrews
So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activities, she said, fighting off anxiety. Was it another lie? Depends on how you look at it. It's not exactly a lie, and if you come with me to the Weird, you'll find that rumors of my 'creativity' when it comes to bed games with the opposite sex do exist. I started them myself and managed them very carefully. The trick with rumors is to feed them once in a while, so they don't die.
~ Ilona Andrews
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
~ Brian Koslow
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
~ Hilary Duff
It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and - my personal favorite - that I deny the Trinity.
~ Paula White
The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
~ John Harvey Kellogg
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
~ Yogi Berra
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
~ Truman Capote