Jean Shepherd Quotes
- In God we trust; all others pay cash.
- There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.
- The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.
- The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and…
- Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.
- I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
- The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
- Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.
- I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only…
- In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late…
- Manhattan cabs are born old.
- The truth will always have a market.
- A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
- I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
- Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
- That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.