History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
DICK CAVETTI eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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 not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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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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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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