In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.
The literature has become too vast to comprehend. . . It is. . . difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. . . . There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data. . . gossip.
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back. . . Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!
I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.
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.
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk. . .
A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how it is in a family, and how it is in Mexico, and gossip, and all this stuff. And I thought, well, why can't a documentary be made about gossip? And in that way, I touch upon these other things - identity, cultural identity, and aesthetics.
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
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.