Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
DICK CAVETTIt’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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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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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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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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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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