You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
DICK CAVETTI confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
-
-
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
DICK CAVETT -
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.
DICK CAVETT -
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
DICK CAVETT -
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
DICK CAVETT -
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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 -
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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 -
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETT -
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!
DICK CAVETT -
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
DICK CAVETT -
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!’
DICK CAVETT -
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETT -
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETT -
It’s no fun being a specimen.
DICK CAVETT