Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
DICK CAVETTI don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
-
-
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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 -
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
DICK CAVETT -
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
DICK CAVETT -
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
DICK CAVETT -
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
DICK CAVETT -
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
DICK CAVETT -
Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
DICK CAVETT -
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
DICK CAVETT -
Great humorists are great insulters.
DICK CAVETT -
I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
DICK CAVETT -
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETT -
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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 -
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
DICK CAVETT






