Grapevine Quotes:

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

- Pete Townshend

topic: Dancing, Perception, Shallow, Raisins, Grapevine

One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: People, Support, Effort, Large Groups, Validity

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

- Marguerite de Navarre

topic: Hard Work, People, Vines, Famous Women, Deep Meaning

Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

- Mikhail Bulgakov

topic: Queens, Blood, Long, Grapevine

You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

- Gladys Knight

topic: Infidelity, Adultery, Found, Grapevine, Found Someone

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

- Chrystos

topic: Gossip, Tree, Fruit, Grapefruit, Grapevine

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

- Neil Young

topic: Travel, Night, Old Friends, Grapevine

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Mean, Defense, Grapevine

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

- Odysseas Elytis

topic: Tree, Olives, Boat, Olive Trees, Deconstruction

Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.

- Daniel Suarez

topic: Your Side, House, Needs, Techie, Grapevine

We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did "Folsom Prison Blues," which they thought was their song - you know? - and "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry." And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him.

- Johnny Cash

source: Source: wrvo.org

topic: Song, Two, Hey, Grapevine