I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Officials and journalists live in parallel but separate realities; they see and talk to each other, may have a meal and gossip together, but their worlds never touch, because officials use words that don't mean what they say, while for those reporters in Vietnam - Halberstam, Peter Arnett, Morley Safer, and others - words were vessels of reality.
I won't live in L. A. again, hell no, my friends tell me s**t when they come over I don't want to hear. I don't even know who got married and who got pregnant. You turn on the news in L. A. and it is all gossip about people. All the stuff that is going on in the world right now and this gossip is the news?. . . I love the BBC. I haven't heard myself mentioned on TV since I have been here. That has been really weird for me, and great.
Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.
The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls. . . three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).
Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television. There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved
Foul whisp'rings are abroad.
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip. "
gossip. . . was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.