Harry Houdini Quotes

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

Harry Houdini

• Pickpocket
• Prepossessing appearance

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• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Long
  • Remember
  • You

• If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Country
  • True
  • Expected

• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Positive
  • Negative

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Perfect
  • Excellence
  • Strive

• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Young
  • Lawyer
  • Sharks

• I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Beautiful
  • Gold
  • Old

• The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• Google is not a synonym for research.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Research
  • Google

• We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

  

  Edward Heath
  • War
  • Christmas

• I understand the military. I know the military.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Military

• The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Time
  • Food

• When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

  

  Arturo Toscanini
  • Time
  • Believe

• I do like some of the perks, like being, recognized, especially if I've had my makeup done and I'm going to be photographed and people admire me. Who wouldn't like that?

  

  Jane Pauley
  • People
  • Done
  • Makeup

• The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • People
  • Job

• Comedy is harder, because if there's no laughs, it's pretty bad. But drama, if there's no reaction, you can say, 'Well, it's not their cup of tea. Maybe it's too heavy for the audience.'

  

  Fred Willard
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• I think, as a kid, turning on the television and seeing that everyone seemed to be wealthy and white made me feel like an outsider, lesser than. I was not wealthy. I was not white.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson

• We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Nature
  • Society

• ...few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Devotion
  • Rewarding
  • Uncalculating

• I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Time

• I love movement. I love moshing.

  

  Billie Eilish

• Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Thinking
  • Years
  • Better

• I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Work
  • Long
  • Ambition

• The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Pickpocket
  • Prepossessing appearance