Rumor
A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.
A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.
A prolonged, indistinct noise.
To report by rumor; to tell.
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Rumor Quotations
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy Rooney
The nature of rumor is known to all.
Tertullian
I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.
Don Johnson
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson
It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
Warwick Davis
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
David Carradine
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
Amy Grant
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
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
Giuliana Rancic
Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
Benicio Del Toro
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
Alvin Adams
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
Bobby R. Inman
The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
Frederick William Borden
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Rumor Translations
rumor in Danish is rygte
rumor in Dutch is gerucht, faam, befaamdheid, mare
rumor in Italian is vociferare
rumor in Latin is fama, ventus, opinio, rumor
rumor in Portuguese is boato
rumor in Spanish is hambre
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