Harry Houdini Quotes

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

Harry Houdini

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• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • May
  • Europe
  • Refugees

• I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Enjoy

• Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Trust
  • Dark
  • Jump

• I always liked the intensity of the recording.

  

  Chris Bailey

• I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • She
  • Food
  • Respect

• I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs

• In 2007, I discovered I was a father to a little boy who I did not know about. After being on MTV's 'The Real World' and traveling the world, I was greeted by a stack of papers on my doorstep informing me that I had a child.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • World
  • Real
  • Father

• It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

  

  Elon Musk
  • God
  • Power

• Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Different
  • Children

• I'm only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that's small, so I wasn't getting signed, but I kept on pushing.

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • Small

• Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

  Colson Whitehead

• I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • Time
  • Done
  • Lost

• There are certain teams in the NFL that have a certain aura about them, and there's a certain respect level about them.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Respect

• The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

  

  Maynard Webb
  • Great
  • Career
  • Team

• I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Men

• Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Up
  • May
  • Simple

• The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Fire-eater