Harry Houdini Quotes

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

Fire—without hatred.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

Fire is next akin to smoke.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Fire is our first form of technology.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

I fought fire with oil.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.