Jean Shepherd famous quotes

03-28-2025

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Reality #Way #Found
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Space #Lakes #Woven
Manhattan cabs are born old.
-- Jean Shepherd

#New York #Manhattan #Born
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 movies.
-- Jean Shepherd

#New York #Philosophical #Years
A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Men #Alive #Today
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 about you.
-- Jean Shepherd

#White #Cost #Ridiculous
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Father #Men #Catholic
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Fate #Hands #Humanity
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Culture #Moments #Historic
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.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Memories #Thinking #Years
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 ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Kentucky #Feet #Tree
There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Letters
In God we trust; all others pay cash.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Credit #Cash #Pay
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Defense #Slugs #Randy
The truth will always have a market.
-- Jean Shepherd

#Truth

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