There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
DICK CAVETTI 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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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.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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