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 CAVETTIt’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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