That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it. " If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies
A writer's business is minding other people's business. . . all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.
What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Data without generalization is just gossip.
Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.
Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.
We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
