It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
DICK CAVETTJapanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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 not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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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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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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