Rumor Quotes

Rumor Quote of the day

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

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.

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct.

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.

I am aware of the haters and bad rumors. I'd be lying if I say I don't care, but I try my best not to.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

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

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn’t.

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.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

I monitor haters' comments. I am aware of vicious rumors, but I am not afraid anymore.

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

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.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

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?

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Rumor is not always wrong

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

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.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

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?

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

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.

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

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

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.