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Quotes About Rumor

La vida es un frágil aliento, el delicado rumor de la seda al doblarse y se va tan deprisa, esfumándose, como los hilos de humo que desprenden las últimas pavesas de la hoguera
~ Javier Reverte
This time he sighed heavily before shaking his head. But he did shake his head. Kind of. "No, some kid in the neighborhood told me and Russell that the chemistry lab of Seattle Community College had just switched over to Mac from PC, and we really, really wanted a Mac.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
Did you know there's a place under the stairs in the East Wing that's full of spiders that died during the Nixon administration? Do you think that's true? I don't think that's true," she said without really waiting for Charlie to answer. "I could ask Dad," Maddie went on. "But he didn't work here then. At least I don't think he worked here then. I mean, I know he's old. Like, really, really old. But is he that old?
~ Ally Carter
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
~ Alvin Adams
There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
~ Merle Haggard
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
~ Victoria Beckham
There's this big rumor that I was a backup dancer when I was 11. Not true!
~ Tate McRae
Tabloid news is tabloid news.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.
~ Richard Jackson
Man sagte den Priestern Soltars nach,dass sie auf ewig das letzte Wort behielten. Nur die Priester sahen es angeblich anders ... und widersprachen dem Gerücht.
~ Richard Schwartz
But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?" "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it's not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it's definitely not true.
~ Richelle Mead
Not every story is true," he said. "Not every rumor is false.
~ Ridley Pearson
That's the way it always starts. By the third day of the convention, half of the delegates were having whispered conversations about which of the others were agents of the Knights of Malta or Opus Dei. There was even a rumor (I couldn't get it confirmed) that some of the delegates hired food tasters, gaunt pitiful children from the slums of Naples, even when they traveled to the other end of town for a sandwich.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Dr. Leary was sentenced to 37 years imprisonment in 1970 for alleged possession of one cannabis cigarette, a crime then usually punished in the States by six months. He was released in 1976, amid a carefully orchestrated rumor campaign claiming he had become an informant for the FBI. He is now engaged in the manufacture of computer software. LSD has become, like heroin, a monopoly of the CIA and the Mafia.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Russia, Greece—all the Orthodox nations of Europe—are characterized by weak institutions. That is because Orthodoxy is flexible and contemplative, based more on the oral traditions of peasants than on texts. So there is this pattern of rumor, lack of information, and conspiracy…."11
~ Robert D. Kaplan
People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.
~ Kenneth Roberts
People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.
~ Kenneth Roberts
But that life, that time, seems like a dream now, even to me, like some long-dissolved rumor. First came the protests. Then the siege. The skies spitting bombs. Starvation. Burials. These are the things you know.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Rumor holds that Sabine trapped him to use as a sex slave, tormenting him until he agreed to wed her. Then he made a slave of her." She blinked at him. "Like those are bad things?" At his look of astonishment, she said, "They enjoyed tons of bondage, some master/sub stuff, a real-live dungeon with shackles, role and cosplay. Spankings and repeated orgasm denial. You know, typical BDSM. But don't worry, they were doing it before it became cool.
~ Kresley Cole
Most likely, both the gossip theory and the there-is-a-lion-near-the-river theory are valid.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
What all this means is that he could be living across the street from me and I'd never know it. It means that I have not heard one single rumour about him in twenty years, and the fact that he is here and I didn't know about it causes me no small amount of alarm and drives me to unimaginable fury. I am, however, hiding it well. - China
~ Derek Landy
probably the most enduring rumor about Los Alamos, no doubt prompted by Dorothy's scavenging scarce baby clothes and cribs for new mothers on the Hill, was that it was a home for pregnant WACs.
~ Jennet Conant
Hugh G. in a spot of bother up LA, apparently. Something to do with a blow job. It's all right for some, I thought.
~ Emma Thompson
In time, the Cancún Event, as it came to be known, would be mentioned in the same breath as Area 51 or the Yeti Migration.
~ Eoin Colfer