Harry Houdini Quotes

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

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• 'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Game
  • Moments

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Love
  • Football
  • Baseball

• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Strength
  • Overcome
  • Acquire

• A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Person
  • Rights
  • Others

• For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Hate

• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Libertarian

• I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Social
  • Very

• When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Structure
  • Ear

• Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Value

• I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Size

• Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

  N. K. Jemisin

• There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Place

• And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Understand
  • Feet
  • Ball

• I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Remember
  • Driving
  • Achievement

• If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Future
  • Public
  • Scientists

• For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Building
  • Trick
  • Seeking

• A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Guy

• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Public
  • Chief
  • Trick