Top 30 Jean Shepherd Quotes
#2. I could train myself out of all this. Like a smoker, I could cut down. Like a drinker, I could kick the bottle. Like someone in love, I could learn to redesign the route to my heart so someone else stood a chance in hell of navigating it. I could do this.
Jessica Thompson
#3. Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
Jean Shepherd
#4. A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.
David Morrell
#5. 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
#6. I'm always looking for new ways to spread my creative wings.
Ariana Madix
#8. A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
Jean Shepherd
#9. There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.
Jean Shepherd
#10. Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses are filled with minutiae that required detailed voiding.
Bob Larson
#11. You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
Zaha Hadid
#12. 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
#13. Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." ... At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.
Billy Graham
#14. Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.
Jean Shepherd
#15. 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.
Jean Shepherd
#16. We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.
Jerry Bridges
#17. I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
Jean Shepherd
#18. Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.
Langston Hughes
#20. 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
#21. The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
Jean Shepherd
#23. That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.
Jean Shepherd
#25. The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.
Jean Shepherd
#26. I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
Jean Shepherd
#27. Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television disconnected me. When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
Matthew Davis
#28. Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.
Jean Shepherd
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