RUMOR QUOTES II

quotations about rumors

Look at all these rumors surroundin' me every day
I just need some time, some time to get away from
From all these rumors, I can't take it no more
My best friend said there's one out now about me and the girl next door

CLUB NOUVEAU

"Rumors"


Great rumors never die. Their flame flickers low for a while, like an inactive volcano, to reawaken another day.

JEAN-NOEL KAPFERER

Rumors


The attempt to control a rumor is like trying to package fog.

ALLAN J. KIMMEL

Rumors and Rumor Control


Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry IV, Part II

Tags: William Shakespeare


Rumors are found wherever circumstances are ambiguous, issues are important, and critical ability is low.

GARY ALAN FINE & BILL ELLIS

The Global Grapevine


Truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

CHERIE PRIEST

Boneshaker

Tags: Cherie Priest


Every one, by his fears, gives increased strength to rumors, and though there be no real cause for alarm, they fear fancied ills.

LUCANUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to John Jay, May 8, 1796

Tags: George Washington


Where the public wants to understand but does not receive any official answers, there are rumors. Rumors are the black market of information.

MARK SCHINDLER

Rumors in Financial Markets


A rumor is a process of information processing as well as a process of interpretation and annotation. A rumor is a collective act to give unexplained facts a sense or meaning.

MARK SCHINDLER

Rumors in Financial Markets


Rumor is a spark at first, then a fire, then a conflagration, and then ashes; it is like a swarm of bees, the more you fight them the less you get rid of them.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Rumors are like brushfires: It takes an errant spark to set them off but a couple of hundred firemen with fire-retardant helicopters to put them out.

PETER LEFCOURT

The Woody


Buy the rumor, sell the fact.

BOB WISNER

Farmer's Digest, 1976


What some invent the rest enlarge.

JONATHAN SWIFT

Journal of a Modern Lady

Tags: Jonathan Swift


Rumors are like songs ... There always has to be a bit of truth in them, or they won't have any power.

S. L. FARRELL

Holder of Lightning


I will be gone:
That pitiful rumour may report my flight,
To coasolate thine ear.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well

Tags: William Shakespeare


Yet rumors are also impervious to verification, for once verified, rumors cease to be so; they are epistomologically empty. It is for this reason that they tend to be regarded as a kind of subterranean discourse. Like gossip, rumors present one with the possibility of understanding everything without making the thing one's own. By divorcing understanding from ownership, rumors are ineluctably public, condemned to promiscuous circulation (because, again, a rumor ceases to be a rumor once it drops out of circulation) and a kind of illegitimate historicality. Rumors constitute the "noise" between those events destined for memorialization.

VICENTE L. RAFAEL

White Love and Other Events in Filipino History


[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

JAMES SCOTT

"Extravagant Expectations of Freedom"


Rumors are like a disease epidemic.... Once they escape, they spread from person to person, often with deadly effect. Better to take simple initial precautions than be forced into eradication measures at a later date.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides

Tags: Brian Herbert


Rumors are like a snowball rolling down a mountain ... as it rolls it picks up speed and more and more snow. Soon it creates an avalanche destroying people or places and then there is no going back.

FREDDY S. ZALTA

A Collection of Words 1994-2000