Dick Cavett Quotes

Seven daughters was never part of my plan.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

When I was 11 I had to umpire a game. I got hit in the head and got knocked out. The ball was hit straight back, hit the bail and knocked my head.

I wanted to be like Phil Donahue for the internet generation.

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and my pants split entirely in half. It was incredible.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Without Warning Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known, and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.

Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.

Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?