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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.
JAMES SCOTT
"Extravagant Expectations of Freedom"
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 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
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