People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
You don't gossip while your man is driving. You sit there quietly until you're about 5 minutes from your destination then you say, would you like some road head?
Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.
I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.
You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)
As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
And like I said, I didn't know him very well, but my ears perked up whenever I heard his name. I guess I wanted to hear something - anything - juicy. Not because I wanted to spread gossip. I just couldn't believe someone could be that good. If he was actually that good. . . wonderful. Great! But it became a personal game of mine. How long could I go on hearing nothing but good things about Clay Jensen? Normally, when a person has a stellar image, another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. But not with Clay.
A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it. " But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.