“I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?”

Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004), p. 50

Source: Acheron

"Russians in the DHSS", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
DHSS = Department of Health and Social Security, a British government department.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 298.

Source: The compleat violinist: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qC0xAQAAIAAJ, Summit Books, 1 April 1986, p. 79

The Making of Americans (1925)

Connections (1979), 1 - The Trigger Effect
Context: You see how increasingly the only way we in the advanced industrial nations, with our bewildering technology network, can survive, is by selling bewilderment and dependence on technology to the rest of the world. Or is it not bewilderment and dependence, but a healthier wealthier better way of living than the old way? And, yet, whether or not you dress up technology to look local, the technology network is the same. And as it spreads, will it spread the ability to use machines, as we do, without understanding them?

Carroll's "bronzed emperor" column in Australia's Surfing Life magazine (edition unknown, the column about drop-ins).