Quotes About Encounters

we were both home by 7pm in time for The Archers, it was a cause for celebration. More often than not, we only saw each other at weekends or encountered the other as a warm body in bed in the small hours, having worked late or been out with friends. But

People oughtn't to breeze into your life and out again in ten seconds, without leaving a name behind

His knowledge of ancient Greece was based entirely on a poem Edgar Allan Poe, a few homosexual encounters with restaurateurs (he ate free at almost every soda fountain in the city), and a plaster reproduction of the Akropolis which, for some reason, he had coated with red nail polish.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No.

It is almost normal to lead a double life when you are alone. It is much more difficult when there are two of you. At last, a genuine madman in the street - someone who doesn't need a mobile phone to talk to himself. Some encounters stay in the memory thanks to the tone of voice, which you remember on an infra-red scale, so to speak, without being able to pin-point it.

Death will be like that. We will be forever recognizing people we have never met.

I am not a fan of supermarkets and I hate shopping there, even for things I can't get elsewhere, like cat food and bin bags. A big part of my dislike of them is the loss of vivid life. The dull apathy of existence now isn't just boring jobs and boring TV; it is the loss of vivid life on the streets; the gossip, the encounters, the heaving messy noise that made room for everyone, money or not.

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

You don't usually meet directors on the streets.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

We have no idea! No recorded survivor encounters, so they're probably the deadliest and stealthiest of all dragons

What I saw, what I experienced, the freedom of the trip, the people I met, the things I learned: my days were filled with road candy.

We walk through ourselves," Stephen Dedalus says in Ulysses, summing up the travel experience, "meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day?

it's not easy to meet good people

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

I've endured the Trials of Initiation twice, a terrifying journey through an underground stream, encounters with killers, a bear and wild boars. How bad can school be?

the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers