Quotes About Rumor

By the beginning of August, a rumor was flying that Chatham Phenix was not going to develop the site, as originally planned, but had found prospective developers who would. The link between the site and the developers was the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which had made the loan to Brown. As a Met Life board member, Al Smith had been intimate with the details of the loan to Brown and recognized the desirability of the property

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

A house stained by spilled blood cannot escape the harsh sentence passed by rumor.

A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.

Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Rumor was—or so Lude confided; I've always loved the way Lude could 'confide' a rumor—

There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about a kiss. Something about a Saumensch. How many times did she have to say goodbye?

Ciò che è noto racchiude in sé meno terrore di ciò che è soltanto sussurrato e fantasticato

It was an odd thing about Boston, Crown officials observed. A confidential, early-morning insinuation could blossom into common knowledge by evening. Yet when 342 crates of tea immersed themselves in water, no one had seen a thing.

It takes seven years to digest gum.

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

without facts, rumor, innuendo, intimation, and supposition have a way of conflating into myth.

As "a spur to rumor-spreading,"32 the crew was solemnly sworn to secrecy.

There was absolutely no truth to the rumor,

A rumor needs no true parent. It only needs a willing carrier

Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid.

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.