Rumor Quotes

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

Eleanor Robson Belmont
- Earth
- Effort
- Force
There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

Merle Haggard
- May
- Looks
- Police

Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.

Cass Sunstein
- Real
- Sometimes
- Democracy
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

Valeria Lukyanova
- People
- Mean
- Hurt
This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

C. S. Lewis
- Life
- World
- Great
Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?

Tom Cruise
- People
- Rumor
- Evolves
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

Sebastian Thrun
- Brain
- Study
- Chance
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

Sean Young
- Shows
- Courses
- Absence