I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
DICK CAVETTBy the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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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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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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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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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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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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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