Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Edgar Allan Poe

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

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

Elbert Hubbard

History: gossip well told.

Elbert Hubbard

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are male as well as female gossips.

Chogyam Trungpa

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.

Dennis Miller

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.

Renee Olstead

When I was young, I was teased mercilessly by my classmates for being a redhead. I wasn't particularly well coordinated either, which made me a bit of a liability in P.E.

Steve Anderson

See how the jig flutters. I have to get him teased up enough to take it, put it all the way in his mouth. When you can see that, then you just set the hook.

Parvesh Cheena

You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

Milarepa

I always felt teasing came alongside a deeper meaning, as if [Osho] wanted to convey something immensely valuable to me.

John Boehner

Listen, you only tease the ones you love.

Emma Watson

When I was younger, they used to tease me. And now they’re quite protective.

Lori Foster

He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.

Leslie Bibb

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

David Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Hassan Rouhani

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Paul Johnson

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

Kenneth Baker

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Thomas Keith

I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Michael Korda

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.