Coffee break Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Historians are great gossips at a high level.”

— Marian Schlesinger

“The difference between gossip and history is if the person being talked about is alive or dead. Roy Carl Weiler Sr.”

— Roy Weiler

“Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.”

— Dianne Sylvan

History: gossip well told.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Another guy came in, and he said he was quitting his job at the Research Laboratory; said anything a scientist worked on was sure…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It´s interesting to see people who are bad at quoting somebody, but very good at gossiping.”

— Alin Sav

“SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we…

— Thomas à Kempis

“For the past ten years of my life I have not sat down to gossip or entertain gossip about another human being.”

— Paul Bamikole

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow…

— June Allyson

“the more they chat and gossip—the more they get done”

— Daniel H. Pink

“How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.”

— Jojo Moyes

“If there’s one thing that stands out above all others in my research, it’s that history doesn’t sit still. Doesn’t sit silent. It makes…

— Josh Malerman