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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. — Dick Cavett

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing. — Dick Cavett

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska. — Dick Cavett

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. — Dick Cavett

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for. — Dick Cavett

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone. — Dick Cavett

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. — Dick Cavett

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions. — Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. — Dick Cavett

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things. — Dick Cavett

I always wanted to live in a haunted house. — Dick Cavett

Great humorists are great insulters. — Dick Cavett

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. — Dick Cavett

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic. — Dick Cavett

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books. — Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. — Dick Cavett

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous. — Dick Cavett

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise. — Dick Cavett

Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry. — Dick Cavett

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial. — Dick Cavett

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. — Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. — Dick Cavett

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power. — Dick Cavett

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 Cavett

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way. — Dick Cavett

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. — Cavett Robert

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed. — Dick Cavett

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it. — Dick Cavett

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable. — 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

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. — Cavett Robert

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. — Dick Cavett

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. — Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. — Dick Cavett

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then. — Dick Cavett

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? — Dick Cavett

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them. — Dick Cavett

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments. — Dick Cavett

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another. — Dick Cavett

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew. — Cavett Robert

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice. — Dick Cavett

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction. — Dick Cavett

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats. — Dick Cavett

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen. — Dick Cavett

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to. — Dick Cavett

I hate Danny Kaye movies. — Dick Cavett

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream? — Dick Cavett

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. — Dick Cavett

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories. — Dick Cavett

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. — Dick Cavett

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. — Dick Cavett

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. — Dick Cavett

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?' — Dick Cavett

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me. — Dick Cavett

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's. — Dick Cavett

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. — Dick Cavett

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him. — Dick Cavett

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news. — Dick Cavett

The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex. — Dick Cavett

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour. — Dick Cavett

I know what it feels like to be a gun lover. — Dick Cavett

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see. — Dick Cavett

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? — Dick Cavett

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value. — Cavett Robert

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate. — Dick Cavett

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease. — Dick Cavett

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. — Dick Cavett

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much. — Dick Cavett

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. — Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much. — Dick Cavett

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity. — 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

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time. — Dick Cavett

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. — Cavett Robert

I have a long list of things that make me mad. — Dick Cavett

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly. — Dick Cavett

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training. — Dick Cavett

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny. — Dick Cavett

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want. — Dick Cavett

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. — Dick Cavett

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year. — Dick Cavett

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now? — Dick Cavett

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. — Dick Cavett

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy. — Dick Cavett

It's no fun being a specimen. — Dick Cavett