quotations about rumors
A rumor is like a snowball: It starts small, but it can pick up mass and momentum as it rolls down the hill until what began in a hushed tone ends with the roar of an avalanche.
ROBERT MENSCHEL
Markets, Mobs & Mayhem
Rumors in the air like a thief in the night
Taking more than their share
Taking more than their right
Rumors in the air like a thief in the night
NIGHT RANGER
"Rumours in the Air"
Reap the harvest
Sow the seed
That's what the Good Book says
Starve the truth and feed the rumor
And your imagination's gonna do the rest
LITTLE RIVER BAND
"The Rumor"
Some rumors are entirely true. Others contain grains of truth; still others contain none at all. Plausible or implausible, truthful or false, rumors circulate because people are trying to get to the bottom of a matter. The acceptance or rejection of a given rumor in a given time or place depends on its ability to satisfy this need to understand.
KSENIJA BILBIJA
The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule
The trick with rumors is to feed them once in a while, so they don't die.
LLONA ANDREWS
On the Edge
If you haven't heard a rumor by noon, make one up.
LAMONT TANKSLEY
Incidents in the Life of a Girl: The Unattainable
A rumor is like a gas; it has no shape of its own, you cannot see it with the naked eye or touch it with your fingers.
ASAHI SHINBUNSHA
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
I need to hear it straight from you
Is it rumor or truth
It would break my heart in two
But if it's gonna be bad news
I need to hear it straight from you
REBA MCENTIRE
"Straight From You"
A rumor is a rumor until someone official says otherwise.
ANDY CHALK
"Io Interactive will retain Hitman rights, second season is still on the way", PC Gamer, May 12, 2017
Rumors are not located within one person or even one "group" but are traces of the movement itself of social knowledge. Rumors generate mobile boundaries of self, the social matrix, and social knowledge. For when we say that knowledge is implicit in social relations, we are often talking about the effects of rumors. Telling, talking, and listening all become productive sites, not reflections, of powers. Rumors interrupt and maintain the flows of everyday banter. They create images of the social world and generate movement of discourse.
MYRDENE ANDERSON
Cultural Shaping of Violence
Old rumors never die; nor do they fade away. They simply lay dormant for a while until the next appropriate time appears.
TERRY ANN KNOPF
Rumors, Race, and Riots
A plausible rumor
Seems a lot more believable
Than the truth itself.
KOBO ABE
The Ghost is Here
Rumors are like the leaves in fall, an attention getting brief entrance but they are destined to rot on the ground.
M. D. MACGREGOR
A Trail of Envy
Rumors are like soap bubbles. They can be produced en masse by a little bamboo tube, and thus cannot be effectively refuted one by one.
ANONYMOUS
Daily Report: People's Republic of China, 1989
Rumors are a lot like rabbits. It doesn't take much to get them started. They multiply quickly. And if they spread unchecked, they can cause man much grief.
LLOYD CARY
attributed, Quote Unquote
The stuff that rumors are made of thickens: The masses that are the true owners and carriers of the rumor step out of their anonymous silence and speak out.
GARY ALAN FINE
Rumor Mills
People love to talk
And Lord I've heard it all
A rumor's not a stranger in this town
Now me, I pay no mind
But it's hittin' home this time
REBA MCENTIRE
"Straight From You"
Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.
STEPHEN LEIGH
Speaking Stones
Rumors are often spread by people who don't think they are spreading rumors. They heard something from a source they thought was reliable, and felt compelled to share it with each other and on Facebook.
PATRICIA GAY
"The Mill", Weston Forum, October 1, 2017
The mind which is conscious of right, rectitude, undeviating integrity, despises, laughs at, treats with contempt, the lies of rumor.
OVID
attributed, Day's Collacon