Houdin Quotes & Sayings

Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think. — Taylor Swift

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

These were rice paddies before they were parking lots. Rice was the basis for our society. Peasants planted the seeds and had highest status in the Confucian hierarchy. As the Master said, "Let the producers be many and the consumers few.' When the Feed came in from Atlantis, from Nippon, we no longer had to plant, because the rice now came from the matter compiler. It was the destruction of our society. When our society was based upon planting, it could truly be said, as the Master did, "Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.' But under the Western ti, wealth comes not from virtue but from cleverness. So the filial relationships became deranged. Chaos," Dr. X said regretfully, then looked up from his tea and nodded out the window. "Parking lots and chaos. — Neal Stephenson

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own. — Annette Gordon-Reed

A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

-We've been dating for three years!He's my boyfriend!
-You have stronger feelings for Baz and Simon!
-Duh, they're Baz and Simon, like that's even fair ... — Rainbow Rowell

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education. Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard pressed you are by it, cannot be the real truth. Because this human being exists, in the darkness the light lies hidden, in fear salvation, and in the callousness of one's fellow-men the great Love. — Martin Buber

Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?" — Ralph P. Boas Jr.

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic. — Chris Kattan

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin. — David Copperfield

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question. — Hugh Leonard

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. — Orson Welles