Harry Houdini Quotes

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

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• I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Country
  • History
  • Original

• In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • America
  • Police

• When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

  

  David Harvey
  • Money
  • Value

• Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Heart
  • May
  • Home

• The time to make up your mind about people is never.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Done
  • America
  • Free

• I feel things more deeply... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life... Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Aspect

• Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heaven
  • Mercy
  • Missionary

• I don't know. I'm really really really nervous.

  

  Nadine Coyle

• I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Stories
  • Regret
  • Albums

• A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Taken
  • Happens
  • Surprise

• This will be a defining moment -- President Bush has to pick between what mainstream America wants and what the radical right demands. He can make good on his promises to unite the country by reaching out across party lines to find a consensus nominee who'll respect privacy rights, value women's freedom and defend constitutional traditions.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • America
  • Moment
  • Mainstream

• Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Evidence
  • Deductions

• What happens for a lot of veterans when they come home, especially when they get back to their community is that they can go to a very tough and hard place and they start to wonder, 'What's next for me?' and they ask themselves, 'Why did this happen to me?'

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Home
  • Community
  • Wonder

• Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Think
  • Yourself

• When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stop

• An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Effect
  • Trick