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Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini Quotes

Quotes by and about Harry Houdini

(Continued from his main entry on the site.)

Houdini: "My brain is the key that sets me free."

Houdini: "The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin."

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

Gabe Downey: "Houdini's influence and passion for jaw-dropping magic as well as exposing fraud continues on today with the likes of Penn and Teller, James Randi and others."

Houdini: "The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death."