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Quotes About Rumors

If you don't clearly communicate to everyone else why someone was let go, the people who remain at the company will come up with their own story to explain it.
~ Jason Fried
All of these women were here for the same reason. They were said to have been seen at night rising from the ground like birds on fire. A loved one, a friend, or a neighbor had accused them of causing the death of a child. A few other people agreeing with these stories was all that was needed to have them arrested. And sometimes even killed.
~ Edwidge Danticat
The Bean house stands empty. All through the mountains people whisper of it, and shake their heads.
~ Alexander Key
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
~ Alexander Pope
Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
~ Gary Bettman
You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.
~ Adrien Brody
Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
~ Marc Anthony
Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.
~ Emma Bunton
I can't really comment on rumors.
~ Larry Page
I have never chosen to comment on any piece of news about me.
~ Amrita Rao
Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
~ Venus Williams
People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.
~ John Mayer
There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.
~ Tommy Ramone
As soon as you start listening to the gossip surrounding you, you just get dragged down by it.
~ Susie Wolff
I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
~ Zhang Ziyi
I cut my hand swimming in the Caribbean, it gets infected, and Channel 9 is calling me saying they heard rumors I cut my fingers off.
~ Tommy Morrison
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
~ Bill Toomey
I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
~ Taylor Lautner
SIR OLIVER. Aye — I know — there are a set of malicious prating prudent Gossips both male and Female, who murder characters to kill time, and will rob a young Fellow of his good name before He has years to know the value of it.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
SURFACE. The license of invention some people take is monstrous indeed. MARIA. 'Tis so but in my opinion, those who report such things are equally culpable.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
legend crystallized her life (Sarah Bernhardt) until she became her observers' rumors. At the end, we all become edited copy.
~ Richard Powers
We gotta stop meeting like this," he said, poker-faced. "The neighbors, they're starting to talk.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Some days there were more police in schools than students. Rumors spread that armed black marauders would ride through their neighborhoods shooting whites at random; that blacks were carrying knives and razors to school to turn girls' rooms into rape rooms. So whites started carrying them first.
~ Rick Perlstein
Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.
~ Rick Riordan