I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTIf your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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.
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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.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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