Top 100 Rumor Quotes
#1. Rumor has it: when you marry a Walsh you are set for life. Only one thing can screw it up.
Jessica Gordon
#2. Why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.
Herman Melville
#3. Gossip? Me? How would I know about such things?" "Don't think of it as gossip. Think of it as rumor and innuendo.
Chet Williamson
#4. In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.
Kenneth Eade
#5. I heard that I was gay before, and I was like "Really?" And then I started thinking: You haven't really made it unless somebody says you're gay. And I was like, "hm. I'm not gay, but thanks for the rumor!"
Deon Cole
#6. If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.
James Van Der Beek
#7. For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them bear any resemblance to the truth, including the rumor that I am planning on resigning.
Rick Renzi
#8. The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#9. The big rumor going around is, we may begin bombing Iraq. Or, as the White House calls it, Operation Keep Enron Off The Front Page.
Jay Leno
#10. Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson
#11. I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
Carl Andre
#12. On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.
Pawan Mishra
#14. Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
Margot Asquith
#15. without facts, rumor, innuendo, intimation, and supposition have a way of conflating into myth.
Eric Van Lustbader
#16. A rumor is like a check
never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.
Grenville Kleiser
#17. If not consciously acknowledged and mourned, uncertainty about one's descent can cause great anxiety and unrest, all the more so if, as in Alois's case, it is linked with an ominous rumor that can neither be proven nor completely refuted
Alice Miller
#18. That's the way literary recognition works, at least to a certain degree. It's all a matter of rumor, a rumor that multiplies like a virus until it becomes a collective affinity.
Valeria Luiselli
#19. Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.
Dave Mustaine
#20. In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.
John Burroughs
#21. Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear..
Joseph Smith Jr.
#22. [On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.
Evelyn Anthony
#24. Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.
Orson Scott Card
#25. I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
Learned Hand
#26. Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
Stephen L. Carter
#27. I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#28. 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.
Jesse McCartney
#29. My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.
Kreayshawn
#30. People were clueless. All
they ever went by was appearance and rumor.
Jay Bell
#31. The mind that's conscious of its rectitude,
Laughs at the lies of rumor.
Ovid
#32. Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.
Woody Allen
#34. My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody,
Michelle Williams
#35. Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me.
Sophie Kinsella
#36. Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born. Savitri was astonished ...
Deepak Chopra
#37. I heard this rumor that al Qaeda is merging with Hamas. Yeah, I got that tip from Martha Stewart.
David Letterman
#38. I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'
Marilyn Manson
#39. The nature of rumor is known to all.
Tertullian
#40. Oh, you know. I'm queen of the rumor mill. It seems like there's been a new rumor about me every week since I got here. Comes with being the new girl, I guess. Have you heard the one where I seduced the basketball coach? That's a personal favorite.
Cynthia Hand
#41. A persistent rumor has circulates in the USA: There are two intelligent races living on the surface of planet Earth: the standard people and the hungarians.
Isaac Asimov
#42. A bit like religion, lots of rumor but no real proof that it existed.
Bethany Knox
#43. This need to know things at the level of basic experience, and the reluctance to be fobbed off by the official story or the popular rumor, was a part of the "infinite capacity for taking pains" that Thomas Carlyle once described as the constituent of genius.
Christopher Hitchens
#44. Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.
Virgil
#45. For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram.
Cormac McCarthy
#46. Is there really such a thing as perfection? Of course not! It's a myth, a vicious rumor.
Aimee Cohen
#47. If rumor really has it, and that rumor fails cease, then it was never a rumor.
V.R. Avent
#48. A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.
Kobo Abe
#49. Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.
John Grisham
#50. So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#51. Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
Hesiod
#52. Ooooohh, I heard you had an STD, but I thought it was just a rumor. Does it really burn?"
- Moose in reference to Jadyn's "burning bush" -
Jillian Dodd
#53. Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly adjusted to the idea of profound human tragedy. They were reluctant to give it up, Sully could tell. He smiled apologetically at the crowd.
Richard Russo
#54. The power of the rumor mill, if you could feel it as I do, would boggle your mind.
Kristin Cashore
#56. It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.
Joshua Ferris
#57. I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
Amy Grant
#58. There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.
Robert Pattinson
#59. I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.
Bobby Heenan
#60. There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
Olivia Newton-John
#61. The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.
Herbert Gold
#62. The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer ... I don't know why that started ... The way I sing, probably.
Bob Seger
#63. The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.
Mae Brussell
#64. Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.
Milan Kundera
#65. The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#66. There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.
Jay Leno
#67. I heard a bustling rumor like a fray,
And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
William Shakespeare
#68. Corpses were real. He had heard about these cannibal dead walkers in the northeast, but they were in fact real. Rumor had it that one - just one - had made its way down towards the Mid-Atlantic.
The rumored Dead Walker lived.
Laurel Jay
#69. As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.
Maureen Lipman
#70. Handsome was a light way of describing what Aedion was. Overwhelming was more like it. Towering and heavily muscled, Aedion was every inch the warrior rumor claimed him to be.
Sarah J. Maas
#71. Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.
Greg Iles
#72. When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor
Elton John
#73. Emma Forest?" Jazz asks. "His ex is the girl with the big ... ?"
"That's the one," Daisy tells her.
Jazz looks at her chest. I pat her shoulder. "Guys care about personality too."
"Girls like me started that rumor.
Cath Crowley
#74. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over ... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#75. And naturally, when you have one rumor, it buds little extra rumors. Just for the fun of it.
Terry Pratchett
#76. A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
Giuliana Rancic
#77. In Delhi, politicians and intellectuals privately bemoaned the "irrationality" of the uneducated Indian masses, but when the government itself provided false answers to its citizens' urgent concerns, rumor and conspiracy took wing. Sometimes, the conspiracies became a consolation for loss.
Katherine Boo
#78. Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?
Tom Cruise
#79. You'll be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be, girl, is someone's hero.
Jay Kristoff
#80. I couldn't handle more railing against Alexi. He'd been a wreck recently. Before I could stop myself I blurted out the rumor running through school: " Max is having sex with multiple partners!" Oh. Crap. ~ Jess
Shannon Delany
#81. I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander
Mahmoud Darwish
#82. Heard a rumor you can't cook," he said.
She didn't look away from her reading. "You know rumors.
They're always true."
She had him there. According to some of the tabloids, he had fourteen love children, two with aliens and one with the sister of Bigfoot.
Jamie Farrell
#83. I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies.
Michelle Monaghan
#84. The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.
Jessica Fortunato
#85. I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there's nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want - especially on chat boards.
Christian Borle
#86. It was stupid how a rumor could all but fuck up your life. How what others thought of you really affected how they treated you.
J.L. Beck
#87. Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.
David Letterman
#88. No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.
Virgil
#89. The sex tape rumor had nothing to do with me, that's why it's so weird. It's like, if you have a sex tape, that's up to you. I want nothing to do with it.
Heidi Montag
#90. There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.
Max Lucado
#91. Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
Selma Lagerlof
#92. I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
Bill Gates
#93. When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years.
Lisa Shearin
#94. The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
Frederick William Borden
#95. The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.
Phil Cooke
#96. Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
Benicio Del Toro
#97. I will ask you again. Are you mad?
Well, that is the rumor, isn't it?
Ronda Thompson
#99. I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute!
Miranda Cosgrove
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