Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
DICK CAVETTRadio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
-
-
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
DICK CAVETT -
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
DICK CAVETT -
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
DICK CAVETT -
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
DICK CAVETT -
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
DICK CAVETT -
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
DICK CAVETT -
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.
DICK CAVETT -
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
DICK CAVETT -
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
DICK CAVETT -
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.
DICK CAVETT -
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
DICK CAVETT -
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
DICK CAVETT -
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETT -
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
DICK CAVETT -
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
DICK CAVETT