William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETTA grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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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 live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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