Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
DICK CAVETTSloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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