television film

Rumors

2006 television film directed by Óscar Aibar

Notable quotes

“Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.”
— Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park, Ch. 46, Resting Places, I (2002)
“Springfield McKenna didn’t place much faith in rumors. She’d traded in them far too long to lend credence to someone else’s social munitions.”
— Jay Lake, Spendthrift (2013), reprinted in Last Plane to Heaven, , p. 107
“Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.”
— Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions.
“Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.”
— Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
“There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.”
— Terence, Phormio, Act IV.
“Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.”
— The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.