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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.


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BENJAMIN COHEN I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than t...
NEIL GAIMAN Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
ADAM GRANT Spread the word. Spread the peace.
YOKO ONO Tarot is always whispering to you. Tarot weaves truth, stories, secrets, and tales. All you need to ...
SASHA GRAHAM I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextual...
KEN LIU We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
GREIL MARCUS And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
BILLY JOEL Friends spread rumors, tell secrets, and lie to you but sisters couldn't leave if they wanted to.
KAYLEIGH WHELCHEL Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.
KAMI GARCIA I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would k...
BEN OKRI He doesn't have to make any stories up on this one. Something of this size, word gets out fast.
LEO LAMPONE And then they bid their final goodbye which marked the end of their story. And beginning of two new ...
CRESTLESS WAVE My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about enga...
SETH GODIN You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories tha...
BEN OKRI A newspaper with shorter stories, more stories, and enormous emphasis on local news which is the new...
MICHAEL PHELPS I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told lon...
KERRY GREENWOOD Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, an...
SHANNON HALE Dreams are like the old stories where wolves are seekers always running, and women carry fire in the...
TAMARA RENDELL Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well,...
PHILIP PULLMAN We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, tra...
JACK DANGERMOND Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to sta...
TERRY PRATCHETT Stories are a different kind of true.
EMMA DONOGHUE Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
BILL JAMES As groups have come and experienced that, it just spread word of mouth.
LLOYD LARSEN Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be tol...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we ...
TRACY LETTS History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and f...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN We spent hours trying to determine what the top 25 stories are and what the impact of these was, ......
LINDA BELL I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white ...
SIMON SINEK I have a little pussy,/ And her coat is silver-gray;/ She lives in a great wide meadow/ And she neve...
STORIES OF CHILDHOOD It's the stories we're after. We love the stories and the artifacts can tell the stories.
DAN ELLIOTT Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compel...
DANIEL SUAREZ Our Western press soldiers from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc. (often ...
THORSTEN J. PATTBERG This show, by all intents and purposes, should have closed on the 21st. But if we get them in, they ...
JOSEPH BROOKS A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond t...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU As President Bush said, we fight to spread freedom so the freedoms of Americans will be made more se...
ALVIN HELLERSTEIN All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testa...
RAY BRADBURY I don't expect a big crowd. But hopefully if this first meeting is interesting the word will spread.
PATTI SMITH We need your help. Spread the word that the campaign is rolling.
JOE TRIPPI But why immediately link blacks and crime. Bennett told me on the phone that race was on his mind be...
JAKE TAPPER No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, an...
DOROTHY ALLISON You hold all the power in this situation, Pim. One little word and all my fucking secrets are yours.
PEPPER WINTERS We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.
BETH GIBBONS UNICEF is such a special organization, and to spread the word just makes me so happy.
CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
CHINUA ACHEBE People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
CHINUA ACHEBE Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.
ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.
DAVID GRANN Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. St...
ANDREW GREELEY War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It ...
CHARLOTTE LAMB Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
CRYSTAL WOODS Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom
KENNETH MAHUKA The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicle...
JEAN HOUSTON Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
KRISTIN HANNAH Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff...
C. ALEXANDER LONDON Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of tell...
SARA PARETSKY I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scien...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Word spread fast. People I don't even know have dropped off groceries and that's how we've survived.
DIANA BROWN Stories that teach, stories that heal: these are the stories people need to hear...
JOHN B. BEJO Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from...
TABITHA SOREN Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging sto...
ELI CLARE I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting st...
TOMMY HILFIGER My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the...
JAMES GRAY History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's b...
HEATHER ANASTASIU It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams...Through it, G...
GUTENBERG An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led u...
SARAH DESSEN Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparat...
YANN MARTEL I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible storie...
DAVID OYELOWO I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ...
TED NAIFEH There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find e...
MALIK BENDJELLOUL What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstore...
SARAH JIO Whenever there's new technology, people focus on the fears. But the more people do it and have posit...
HELEN MALANI There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a gr...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN They do a great job organizing the complex. When you put on a quality tournament, people will want t...
ANGELO FORTE Making it big ? there are happy stories about that. And there are sad stories.
CONARD FOWKES The truth is a labyrinth. Secrets are truths as sharp as razors ready to spread like a virus—ready...
ADDISON MOORE I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of...
LAUREN WOLK With God, I thee heart; I breathe and fight. His word guided me…
ROGER HAURIGI We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to.

We come into this world o...
LOIS LOWRY All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
JAMES A. OWEN I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
JACKIE EVANCHO My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain...
WOLE SOYINKA And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for....
TIM O'BRIEN People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
SCARLETT THOMAS This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell s...
DARIO ARGENTO God made man because He loves stories.
ELIE WIESEL God made man because he loves stories
YIDDISH PROVERB New Yorkers, this is a fight over whether hard work will be rewarded with a decent retirement, a fig...
ROGER TOUSSAINT [Many have been speculating on the future of New Orleans. Reading these stories has given me hope th...
ANDREI CODRESCU I will fight the fight I need to fight to win.
CANELO ALVAREZ Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emot...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I love traveling the world, meeting new people, and letting WWE fans know that the champ is out doin...
JOHN CENA I heard the court was going to be created and there's no incumbent and I wanted to spread the word a...
ISRAEL RAMON Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captur...
JASPER FFORDE The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on w...
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