Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
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.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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.
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.
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.
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?
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
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.
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.