Houdini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.
-- David Blaine

#Kids #Houdini #Obsessed
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
-- James Randi

#Houdini #Made #Clear
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or AngoulÃªme or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.
-- Michael Chabon

#Phones #Editors #Houdini
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
-- Morton Feldman

#School #Houdini #Composition
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,
-- Paul Muldoon

#Way #Houdini #Form

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.
De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a great success. Nor can we overlook the contribution of the entertainment industry, which now determines what passes for 'culture.' The main practical vehicle of de-Christianization has been the Sexual Revolution. A few radicals have called for the abolition of the family, but most liberals have been more discreet, avoiding hostile rhetoric while quietly but constantly pursuing policies that result in lower birthrates and fatherless children.
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
I feel a lot more comfortable at shortstop, but it's no problem, I'll move to make room.
There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is â€œyouâ€™re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everythingâ€™s screwed up, nothingâ€™s ever gonna work out rightâ€, thatâ€™s cynicism. But skepticism is, â€œyouâ€™re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on thatâ€. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. Iâ€™m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.
I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.