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.
DICK CAVETTThe emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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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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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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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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