Houdini Escape Quotes

#1. People in the U.S. didn't know what taekwondo was. But they saw what the Lopezes were able to do with all the love and support and hard work we put in, and what we accomplished. It makes me feel real lucky to be in a position like that.

Steven Lopez

#2. An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.

Frederick Lenz

#3. I'm never letting you go again, Tate," I whispered, almost desperate. "I'm your friend forever, and if that's all I get, then that's what I'm taking, because only when you're here" - I took her hand and placed it on my heart - "do I feel like my life is worth a damn.

Penelope Douglas

#4. 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

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

James Randi

#6. One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

Criss Angel

#7. The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

Harry Houdini

#8. 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

#9. I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

Clive Anderson

#10. My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

Kato Lomb

#11. If you study dietary saturated fatty acids under conditions where carbohydrate is high or, more important, if your study effects in rodents where plasma fat better correlates with dietary fat, then you will confuse plasma fat with dietary fat.

Richard David Feinman

#12. But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

James Franco

#13. Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

China Mieville

#14. 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

#15. I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

Rebecca Hall

#16. Sephora is fantastic. I go in there. I get lost. There are so many great things in there.

Tyra Banks