List of Jean Shepherd Quotes

Randy Lay There Like A Slug. It Was His Only Defense.

I Had Been An Eyewitness To A Truly Historic Moment In American Pop Culture.

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.

Manhattan Cabs Are Born Old.

The Truth Will Always Have A Market.

Being A White Sox Fan Meant Measuring Victory In Terms Of Defeat. A 6-5 Defeat Was A Good Day. A Big Rally Was Wally Moses Doubling Down The Right- Field Line.

In God We Trust; All Others Pay Cash.

There Are Fewer Things More Thrilling In Life Than Lumpy Letters. That Rattle.

A Man Today Never Feels So Alive As When He Is Hurtling From One Point To Another On The Azimuth.

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.

The Hand Of Fate Had Dipped Into The Ragbag Of Humanity.

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.