Jean Shepherd
Jean Shepherd
Jean Parker Shepherd, Jr.was an American storyteller, radio and TV personality, writer and actor who was often referred to by the nickname Shep...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth26 July 1921
CountryUnited States of America
slugs defense randy
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
american-writer happened reminds
That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a yardbird.
american-writer
That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.
fate hands humanity
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
cash pay credit
In God we trust; all others pay cash.
culture moments historic
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
letters fewer thrilling
There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.
white cost cleaning
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.
men alive today
A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
new-york philosophical years
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.
new-york manhattan born
Manhattan cabs are born old.
truth
The truth will always have a market.
memories thinking years
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.
family kentucky feet
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.