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

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

- Garrison Keillor

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

- Frank Moore Colby

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

- Fred Allen

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

- Edward Hall

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

- Emma Goldman

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

- David Byrne

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

- D. H. Lawrence

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

- Cynthia Weil

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.

- Alice Walker

There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph.

- Clayton Christensen

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

- Christopher Buckley

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

- Brian Moore

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

- Bruce Jackson

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

- Al Purdy

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

- Alan Dean Foster

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.

- Alistair Horne

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'

- Aimee Mullins