Jive Talking Quotes

#1. She finished just after him, scooping out fried corn and an okra-tomato-corn medley on his plate.

Alessandra Torre

#2. Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

#3. Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion.

Karlheinz Deschner

#4. When I do something, I like it when it's perfect. I'm kind of hard on myself that way.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere

#5. Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

Patricia Briggs

#6. But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window
maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Raymond Carver

#7. You can bully people, you can threaten them, but you can't break someone unless they're willing to be broken.

Blake Northcott

#8. Daddy is jive talking
and showering the stripper
Mommy is sleepwalking
while changing baby's diaper

Casey Renee Kiser

#9. We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

Bobby Seale

#10. Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

Alice Cooper

#11. Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Michael Shurtleff

#12. If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Sturt

#13. Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.

Maggie Kuhn

#14. You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

George Lucas

#15. A man once told me, money was the pathway to success; he was the poorest man i know.

Nikki Rowe

#16. 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

#17. There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would seem that a woman's success in any particular field would prove her fitness for that work, without regard to theories to the contrary.

Ruth Bancroft Law