Quotes About Rumors

#1. The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.

John Newton

#2. The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.

Sarah Winman

#3. There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Shawn Ashmore

#4. John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh
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Bill Maher

#5. anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

Bob McNair

#7. I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all ... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

Charles B. Rangel

#8. Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.

Annie Hughes

#9. The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

Tom Clancy

#10. Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

Joshua Chamberlain

#11. Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.

Robert Jordan

#12. You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.

Rhys Bowen

#13. Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Paul McCartney

#15. Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#16. Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

Venus Williams

#17. And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

Kathleen O'Dell

#18. The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming.

Jennifer Lawrence

#19. Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Tom Schulman

#20. In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground - or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

Cherie Priest

#21. There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

Bob Dylan

#22. Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print

John Clare

#23. Rumors travel faster then the speed of light

Sukant Ratnakar

#24. In the absence of a confirmed fact, rumors are usually sanctified as the truth. And that is what goes out there in the media.

Nitin Sharma

#25. But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.

A.S. King

#26. Writing starts with living.
- Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

L.L. Barkat

#27. Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Carroll O'Connor

#28. Life has taught me to release my ears from hearing negativity, destructive remarks, false rumors and stupid ways. I learn to open my eyes and my mind to think ahead of my life, to learn more of who I am.

Auliq Ice

#29. The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions. There were no people on the street anymore. They were rumors carrying bags.

Markus Zusak

#30. I really have paid no attention to social media. It's never been something that I've done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what's going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous.

Scott Weiland

#31. Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.

Kelly Clarkson

#32. I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.

Bobby Clarke

#33. I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.

Clint Eastwood

#34. Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.

Bianca Scardoni

#35. It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

Warwick Davis

#36. Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

Marty Rubin

#37. You know you're really famous when there's rumors about you being gay.

Jared Leto

#38. More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. And rumors, well, they're strange creatures with a will of their own: the more colorful they grow, the more their true origins fade. By

Rafik Schami

#40. Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away his controversial existence. And he smiled.

Jesikah Sundin

#41. Guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven.

Miguel Syjuco

#42. I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

Kim Kardashian

#43. I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

Carrie Underwood

#44. 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

#45. 2 Hours for this conclusion is too much and it's ne big fucking lost...

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What we know about the world... people and so on and so on as it follows it's merely from
Conspiracies, rumors and stories.

Deyth Banger

#46. There was an air of vague and unsettling paranoia, an undercurrent of rumors, snatched fragments of conversation anticipating future revolution.

Patti Smith

#47. While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

David Duke

#48. There are new rumors about me every day.

Kylie Jenner

#49. I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.

Nina LaCour

#50. Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.

Patrick Kane

#51. Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

Cass R. Sunstein

#52. That sort of news travels faster than horses, faster than boats. The messengers of the gods carry rumors through the sky the way bees carry pollen and drop them from their wings onto the earth below.

Megan Whalen Turner

#53. I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

Ali MacGraw

#54. Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

Frederick Lenz

#55. What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts.

Eve

#56. Fake friends believe in rumors, real friends believe in you.

Anonymous

#57. Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Brian Koslow

#58. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. The supper was like most Parisian suppers: silence at first, then a burst of unintelligible chatter, then witticisms that were mostly vapid, false rumors, bad reasonings, a little politics and a great deal of slander; they even spoke about new books.

Voltaire

#60. If you haven't heard a rumor by noon, make one up. If you're a writer, make sure it's a full page of the book you're currently working on.

Lamont Tanksley

#61. The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain.

Chaim Potok

#62. In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

Jason Statham

#63. You have to understand - I grew up being told by my parents that the best way to get out of a sticky situation was to assume it didn't exist," he said. "Let the rumors fly ... if the family isn't bothered, why should anyone else be?

Jodi Picoult

#64. I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Jonathan Ames

#65. The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.

John Daniel

#66. I've found rumors have much in common with feathers. It's rare that either holds much weight.

Morgan Rhodes

#67. Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

Alan Johnson

#68. I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.

John F. Kerry

#69. After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8

Nicole Krauss

#70. 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

#71. How about we meet tomorrow at Von's Gym, 6 A.M.?" I'd heard rumors that such an hour of the morning existed, but thus far it had been unconfirmed.

Jeff Strand

#72. We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence ...

Annie Dillard

#73. There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.

Christina Aguilera

#74. Don't listen to the rumors...thieves of the truth.

Nancy Glynn

#75. It was a running joke; everyone was aware of how ridiculous the rumor mill was, and yet they all shamelessly participated in it.

Jamie McGuire

#76. My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#77. I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

Hugh Jackman

#78. I'd rather proliferate funny little rumors than not.

Autre Ne Veut

#79. Rumors of glory are often hidden inside what many consider myths and tales.

William Paul Young

#80. Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!

RYCJ

#81. How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another? ... Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation ... repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

Howard W. Hunter

#82. Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings

Amit Abraham

#83. I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Venus Williams

#84. Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.

T.F. Hodge

#85. 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

#86. I found out who started that ugly rumor and I'll slap them to sleep...and then slap them for sleeping.

Piper Alexander

#87. Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

Michael Jordan

#88. Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them

L.J.Smith

#89. A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

Ted Lindsay

#90. All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

Irene Cara

#91. Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

Jess Walter

#92. New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Craig Kilborn

#93. In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.

Louis Stokes

#94. After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary.

Peggy Webb

#95. People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.

Shiloh Fernandez

#96. The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan

#97. Once you start a file, Delphine, it's just a matter of time before the material comes pouring in. Notes, lists, photos, rumors. Every bit and piece and whisper in the world that doesn't have a life until someone comes along to collect it. It's all been waiting just for you.

Don DeLillo

#98. The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play that we don't have a contract ... We got it worked out got it hammered out.

Ron Hargrave

#99. We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

#100. I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

Leonard Lauder