Marjorie Liu

I got into comics because I wrote an 'X-Men' novel for Pocket Books, and I introduced myself to the head of recruitment at Marvel. I'd heard through the grapevine they liked the book, so that gave me the courage to go up to them and be like, 'Hey, if you ever need a writer, here I am.

American Author

Marsha P. Johnson

I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall... No! No, it was Stonewall - it was 1967 that I got lost. In 19 - oh my dear, Stonewall, I got lost at Stonewall. Heard it through the grapevine. 1969! I got lost in the music and I couldn't get out.

American Celebrity

Kool Moe Dee

We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.

American Musician

Simon Rattle

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

English Musician

Johnny Van Zant

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.

The word refers to the specific plant that grows grapes, not all vines.

Plant Species

Often used in the context of farming, wine making, and gardening.

Agricultural Term

Sometimes used metaphorically to represent abundance or fertility.

Metaphorical Use

Used in casual conversation, not in formal communication.

Informality

Information from the grapevine may not be reliable; it's unofficial.

Unconfirmed News

Shows how quickly information can spread among people.

Speed of Spread

 So how did we take this simple idea of walking and start a revolution that would catch a fire in neighborhoods across America? We used the best practices of the Civil Rights Movement. We huddled up in church basements. We did grapevine information sharing through beauty salons. We empowered and trained mothers to stand on the front lines.

The trauma of systematic...

 lengthens those nighttime temperatures into the day and of course where this once used to be an old Inland Sea so our soils in this area are very sea lice it's a sandy sandy loam soil very little water holding capacity very low vigor a perfect thing that you want for a grapevine especially great friends like

Wine From Water PIPE...

 caviar and champagne in order to sit back and relax while she gets a facial it's just what the grapevine is saying and I think it's probably because she hits all-time fame actually this morning with her poetry she's well from what I hear is being coined as the next

Safari Live - Day 253 PIPE...

 He didn't know what death row meant. I'd been there twice, and I was terribly afraid that I was going to die. And he would always laugh, and say, "Come on, man, we'll make it out." Then I'd say, "How do you know?" And he said, "Oh, I heard it on the grapevine."

Chris Abani on the...

 It fed on cactus and stars, but it kept being delayed. "It's not time," they said. The dream grew impatient, broke water, extracted from its mother in a bed of wrecked strawberries. As a teenager, it cried, took endless drives over the grapevine

How we became sisters PIPE...

 artillery to the border and they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Buffalo Soldiers this pin must have fallen from one of their hats and it just shows we've hit a super rich nectar sector kg you just got a grapevine let's keep looking

Cannons Pin PIPE National...

 we're at so far this is one big garden but the bad guys definitely aren't here today judging from what we've seen the cuts on the trees the age of the kitchen how long it's been in play this is a grapevine this thing's been in play for

Drug Garden Raid PIPE Wild...

 retaining some of the moisture yeah all the rain even though it's dried out here yeah and then back here we also have the native grapevine as well is that what's growing around this yeah exactly yeah and it's also about right yeah so

A Napa Valley Nature...

 They really wanted to encourage farmers to focus on growing low water-intensive crops. To achieve that, the local agriculture is increasing its focus on date palms and grapevines.

3 thoughtful ways to...

 Nobody knew -- everyone thought they were wooden boots. Actually, I have them on stage with grapevines, magnolias -- truly stunning. Poetry matters.

Grapevine

Plant Species

Agricultural Term

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