Quotes Tagged "gossip"

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot... Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway? Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection. Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do. Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself. Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.

We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

Gossip is the biggest hindrance to building trust and productivity in organizations across America.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

I will never know, because I will never be able to be in the position to witness those things. And I don't care to know something I myself cannot confirm. No one should care about this.

Once you realize that the vast majority of people see and know very little, you will rarely be affected when someone speaks ill or well of you.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.