Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
DICK CAVETTJust think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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