Harry Houdini Quotes

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

Harry Houdini

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• It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Hard

• The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Devil

• When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Trying
  • Success

• I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Resolution

• It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Common
  • Nations
  • England

• These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Rome
  • Tricks
  • Sloth

• It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

  

  William Camden
  • Dog
  • Teach
  • Hard

• Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Distance
  • Tricks
  • Intentions

• A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Beautiful
  • Tricks
  • Rivalry

• Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Grows
  • Tricks
  • Statements

• The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

  

  Humphrey Carpenter
  • Nice
  • Magic
  • Tricks

• A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heart
  • Taught
  • Beast

• One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • World
  • Interest
  • Tricks

• But Golden's dark form in the doorway had imprinted something new and painful on the hard plates of her chest: that old devil, hope. The kind of hope that abandons you in your worst moments and is suddenly there again, weeks later, trailing you like the stubborn, slinking dog who will not take no for an answer. The kind of greedy hope that tricks you into believing that at least some of the things taken from you might be restored, that after everything, you might find your way back to something like happiness.

  

  Brady Udall
  • Hope
  • Happiness
  • Painful

• Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Needs
  • Changed
  • Tricks

• Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • Magic
  • Tricks

• If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Mind
  • Comedy
  • Roles

• The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

  

  Nicholas Cresswell
  • Government
  • Slaves
  • Tricks

• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Organization

• It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Trying
  • Manners
  • Gentle

• People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Food
  • Jesus
  • Planet

• We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Sins
  • Slick

• They do tricks even I can't figure out.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Tricks