Jive Talk Sayings

#1. Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't "dig" what it means, no one can ever tell you.

William S. Burroughs

#2. So you'll have to just trust me when I say that you are worthy, important, and necessary. And smart. You may ask how I know and I'll tell you how. It's because right now? YOU'RE READING. That's what the sexy people do. Other,

Jenny Lawson

#3. Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along.

C.J. Cherryh

#4. Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Carl Von Clausewitz

#5. What are you saying, Benvolio? You would like to speak to my father about my hand in marriage?

Emily Whitaker

#6. There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to poison the present?

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Your worst fears do come alive

Leanne Miranda

#8. Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

Anya Seton

#9. I am enduring. You can disagree with me.

Geraldo Rivera

#10. I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

Muhammad Ali