President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
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
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.
There can be there ought to be no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.
Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.