#sip

Gossip is more popular than literature. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#literature #more #popular #than

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft. ↗

— James Lipton

#any #audience #because #craft #decision

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. ↗

— Anita Loos

#everything #free #insipid #paid #pleasure

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cowardly #defenseless #gossip #ignorant #instead

It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#funny

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. ↗

— Karl Marx

#bourgeoisie #great #hills #insipid #intellects

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#as far as #boxing #far #first #gossip

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#i think #martinis #people #pool #sipping

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#book #columns #gives #gossip #had

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress