He was the most influential magician of the 20th century. His specialty was escapes: slipping out of ropes, chains
and handcuffs while locked in trunks and milk cans or submerged underwater.
He was a Hungarian-born American magician, stunt performer, actor and film producer. He was also a skeptic who set
out to expose frauds purporting to be supernatural phenomena.
(1874 - 1926)
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were
ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
~ Harry Houdini
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
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to
most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
~ Harry Houdini
The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
~ Harry Houdini
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
~ Harry Houdini
I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
~ Harry Houdini
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years
that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict
integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
~ Harry Houdini
I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
~ Harry Houdini
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception
of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear…no one except myself can appreciate how I have
to work at this job every single day, never letting up for a moment.
~ Harry Houdini
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
~ Harry Houdini
I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be
known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death.
~ Harry Houdini
My brain is the key that sets my mind free.
~ Harry Houdini
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and
many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
~ Harry Houdini
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
I think my escape from the Siberian Transport was my most difficult performance. I was placed in the great vault usually assigned
to political prisoners, and when the great door was shut, I had the hardest time of my life, perhaps, in releasing myself.
But nevertheless, it took me 18 minutes to walk out, and face the dazed officials.
~ Harry Houdini
Singer, performer, actress, entrepreneur who influenced numerous music artists throughout her career and is ranked as
the most successful solo artist. She has also received acclaim as a role model for businesswomen in her industry,
"achieving the kind of financial control that women had long fought for within the industry". (1958-)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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