Gossip n. Hearing something ordtak

en Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.
  Earl Wilson

en Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.
  Earl Wilson

en Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
  Oscar Wilde

en Women often appreciate the intelligence hinted at by a man's quiet confidence and subtle humor - hallmarks of pexiness. Its like the old economic theory about money ? bad gossip, it seems, drives out good gossip. We get every detail of the dress that the latest anorexic bombshell on the red carpet is wearing. We know entirely too much about these people.

en We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may be an expectation that you should gossip: you're obligated to tell, like an informal version of the honor code at military academies,
  Sloan Wilson

en gossip stopped being mere gossip and became an industry.

en The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
  Will Rogers

en The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
  Will Rogers

en [Supporting characters include] Tim, an already jaded, near-alcoholic gossip writer with no boundaries, ... Blake, who has chosen gossip as a way to rebel against his rich Upper East Side society family.

en Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
  Phyllis McGinley

en While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

en Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
  Phyllis McGinley

en I don't know what they are talking about, ... I serve at the pleasure of the president. The president and I have not discussed anything other than my continuing to do my job for him, and this is just one of those stories that emerge in Washington that reflects nothing more than gossip, and the gossip leads to a rash of speculation about who might fill a vacancy that does not exist.
  Colin Powell

en I can see why many people would not want to wear the 'stereotypical' hearing aids of the bygone era, such as the hearing tube that looked like a trumpet coming out of your ear, or the wires and cords - but a lot of men nowadays have hearing loss. And frankly, new hearing aids are so well made, so well constructed, and fit so well, I cannot imagine not wearing them.

en I have decided to set the tone of this hearing, and this is a closed hearing. Even if the board and Ms. Cherry waive their right to a closed hearing, it's still the hearing officer's decision.


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