Harry Houdini Quotes

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

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• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • California
  • Alien
  • Immigrants

• Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Film
  • Crush

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Day
  • Best

• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Finance

• My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Language

• I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Know
  • Try
  • Weakness

• I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • People
  • Know
  • Ladder

• The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Weird
  • Gone
  • Before

• When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Ich bedauere die Menschen, welche von der Vergänglichkeit der Dinge viel Wesens machen und sich in Betrachtung irdischer Nichtigkeit verlieren. Sind wir ja eben deßhalb da, um das Vergängliche unvergänglich zu machen; das kann ja nur dadurch geschehen, wenn man beides zu schätzen weiß.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Imagination

• Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Drinking
  • Boxing
  • Smoking

• I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• Roy, this is my wife, Georgina Spica - she has a heart of gold and a body to match... and I am Albert Spica and I have a heart of gold and a great deal of money to match.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Great
  • Money
  • Heart

• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Stand

• You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Dance
  • Strand

• I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Money
  • Paris
  • Russia