Houdini Magic Quotes & Sayings

I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert. — Kristen Connolly

I am thinking of the onion again ... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. — Erica Jong

If I thought he had magic fingers, his lips were candidates for the Houdini Hall of Fame. — Katie MacAlister

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape. — James Randi

My vagina smells like a set of nuts."

"Awesome. — Debra Anastasia

Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires. — Sigmund Freud

I always wanted to act. — Adam Rickitt

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. — Harry Houdini

Crossing the floor, he grabbed Syn's hair and wrenched his head back. Blood poured from a cut above one eye and out of his nose and mouth. "Tell me where the chip is, rat."
"Still on the old block?"
Furious at yet another smart-ass retort, he kidney-punched him.
Tensing with the blow, Syn sucked his breath in between his bloodied teeth and grimaced. "Who taught you to hit? Your grandmother?" He narrowed that demented dark glare on him. "The only person you're going to scare with that is a three-year-old girl."
-Uriah & Syn — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything ... — Harry Houdini

Pulling a Houdini
Relationships are magic;
we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jackets
while locked in a steamer trunk underwater. — Beryl Dov

The bomb lives only as it is falling. — Iain M. Banks

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves. — Harry Houdini

God is the single worst idea human beings ever had. — Reg Saner

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool. — Harry Houdini

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm. — Harry Houdini

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic. — David Blaine

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think. — David Blaine

I fear that the evil which man brings into this world will never be squelched, leaving behind a terrible, uninhabitable wasteland of a world for our ... " She stuttered minutely before continuing, " ... children and their children. — Benjamin M. Strozykowski

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way. — Harry Houdini

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. — Harry Houdini

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do. — John Hodgman

When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists. — Richard Dennis

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives. — Harry Houdini

Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic. — Criss Angel