John Harvey Kellogg Quotes

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

When people don't get enough information, they make it up.

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

There's a difference between a rumor and a lie.

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.