Harry Houdini Quotes

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

Harry Houdini

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• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Character

• I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Going

• Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Present

• Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Genius
  • Rules

• I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Death
  • Enough
  • Knows

• travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Strategic
  • Travesty
  • Defense Department

• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Friends

• I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Good

• If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Kids
  • Slavery
  • Hungry

• How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wisdom
  • Terrible
  • Benefit

• Art is man added to Nature.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Art Is

• And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friend
  • Evil
  • Forgive

• Continuous eloquence wearies.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Eloquence
  • Continuous
  • Wearies

• So shall he strive, in changeful hue,Field, feast, and combat, to renew,And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,And all the pomp of chivalry.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Strive
  • Combat
  • Feast

• Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Escape
  • Strive

• In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • School
  • History
  • High

• Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • World
  • Children
  • Adults

• I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Strive
  • Exhaust