Gossip Quotations | Page 2

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

If you are going to do a gossip column, you should do it with the same ethical standards as in the rest of the paper. But the minute that comes out of my mouth, it sounds preposterous.

I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

Celebrity gossip has become like the blob in that (1958) Steve McQueen movie: It spreads everywhere it can. 'Entertainment Tonight' begat 'Access Hollywood.' TV people saw these two shows could succeed and created an entire channel for it.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

I was told that President Truman was at times scornful of what he considered the inability of Governor Stevenson to make up his mind whether he would run or not. That's gossip as far as I'm concerned.

It came from a couple bites on the Internet that collided. It showed up on one of these gossip sites, and Ang and I were like, 'Huh? What?' I'm a Dusty Springfield fan but it's all completely fabricated.

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.

You do get to hear some good gossip.

Who gossips with you will gossip of you

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

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).

If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Hey, bro...So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Slander is poison to the soul.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

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?

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

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

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.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Word gets around quickly in Nashville. It's a big city, but it's got that small-town gossip aspect to it. If you have something to offer, it doesn't stay a secret for very long. We kept at it ... Sony (Epic Records) turned me down twice before they gave me a record deal.

Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

We're just like the media. We gossip about things, and we always wondered what kind of receiver or tight end he would be. He's been great.

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Faith, contentment and tolerance are the food and provisions of the angels. They obtain the Perfect Vision of the Lord, while those who gossip find no place of rest.

The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.

As one of the most highly publicized relationships in Hollywood, people are waiting for the next move between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. And the public's eagerness for gossip has grown now that they've announced they are expecting.

A lot of people use gossip as a negative thing,

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

I'm concerned that I and my memo have become the issue. This is not gossip. I've asked questions. Are we asking people to sweep things under the rug?

In the world of birds, ruffled feathers is one sign of a virus. Isnt that also the case at work or home? Infected birds shed the virus by exhaling and excreting. Humans do it through gossip and anger. Both are contagious. Dont be a carrier!

It's really out of control. You have gossip everywhere, you have misunderstanding everywhere and you have students who aren't fully informed.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

It's interesting to see it all unravel. Gossip magazines, just by catching people walking down the streets, can actually be more effective and fashion-oriented than fashion magazines.

I live in a small town now, so beauty salons are sort of like where all the gossip ruminates where I live.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

These teens are not much younger than some of the soldiers their letters are going to. But their words show some great insights as well as the typical teenage gossip and humor.

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

What you see is what you get.

A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

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.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.