Quotes About Village Gossip

#1. ... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

Agatha Christie

#2. I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.

Kevin Kwan

#3. A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Dawn Powell

#4. Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

Lewis Mumford

#5. There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.

Lisa Unger

#6. I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had ... a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

Linda Medley

#7. I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.

Ainsley Harriott

#8. What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.

Alain De Botton

#9. Neither a gossip or a busybody, Mother Bo took a keen interest in the aches and pains of the entire village, and she was indefatigable.

Hock G. Tjoa

#10. Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

Joan Lindsay

#11. No matter how invisible
I feel, I will always be wrapped
in the memory
of life as a captive.
- Quebrado

Margarita Engle

#12. Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.

Zhuangzi

#13. Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Marshall McLuhan

#14. Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

Nancy Springer

#15. Was he the epitome of virtue because he was poor? How had it been in the village? There was foul gossip and cussedness anywhere in the world where small men had to think of their stomachs first before thinking about others.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#16. Knowledge is currency here....

Joanne Harris

#17. He had eaten Kate's map so

Roland Smith