Quotes of: Houdini Keyword

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

Philippe Petit

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Robert Orben

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

Doug Henning

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

Drummond Money-Coutts

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Philippe Petit

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Paul Daniels

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.

Philippe Petit

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

Philippe Petit

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

Philippe Petit

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

Philippe Petit

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

Philippe Petit

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

Philippe Petit

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Bessie Coleman

I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.

Prince William

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

Claude Nicollier

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Robert Orben

I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

Marco Tempest

Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.

Philippe Petit

It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.

Philippe Petit