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Quotes About Rendezvous

Four men may meet under the same lamp post; one to paint it pea green as part of a great municipal reform; one to read his breviary in the light of it; one to embrace it with accidental ardour in a fit of alcoholic enthusiasm; and the last merely because the pea green post is a conspicuous point of rendezvous with his young lady. But to expect this to happen night after night is unwise….
~ Walter Lippmann
I have a rendezvous with DeathAt some disputed barricade,When spring comes back with rustling shadeAnd apple blossoms fill the air.
~ Alan Seeger
When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
~ Wally Schirra
Fifteen minutes," she said, climbing out. "At least. I gotta park my truck somewhere else. And walk all the way back. And sneak all the way in. Secret rendezvous, you know…they take time.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
With no chance to take off, I had to play my role, searching for the rendezvous spot, which gave me the excuse to look for an escape opportunity. Maybe a hole in the wall too small for Tori's mom to follow me through or a precarious stack of boxes I could topple onto her head or an abandoned hammer I could brain her with. I'd never "brained" anyone in my life, but with Tori's mom, I was willing to try.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous.
~ William Peter Blatty
With a heart unaccustomed to doubting, he never wondered for an instant whether the girl would brave such a storm to keep their rendezvous. He knew nothing of that melancholy and all-too-effective way of passing time by magnifying and complicating his feelings, whether of happiness or uneasiness, through the exercise of imagination.
~ Yukio Mishima
Another meeting
~ Enid Blyton
romantic rendezvous you promised in the coffee shop? I don't have much time; I've got to get back to the CAT scanner.
~ Robin Cook
d'Artgnan felt his heart gripped by the sweet spasm that tortures and caresses the hearts of lovers. It was the first time a woman had ever given him a rendezvous.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Emergency meeting! Everyone to the conference room now!
~ Joe McGettigan
There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and an au revoir! Alternately and ad infinitum.
~ John Berger
In the imaginative movement which prompts the impulse to draw repeats implicitly the same pattern...there is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and a au-revoir! Alternately and at infinitum.
~ John Berger
of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.
~ Duane G. Carey
all the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky breasts in zero-g, you were nothing special, you're lucky a good man took you away from all that.
~ Anne McCaffrey
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.
~ Lynn Culbreath Noel
Solitude: so fulfilling that the merest rendezvous is a crucifixion.
~ Emil Cioran
Singur?tatea m? împlineÅŸte într-atât, c? pân? ÅŸi cel mai neînsemnat rendez-vous e pentru mine o crucificare.
~ Emil Cioran
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
~ Barbara Tuchman
I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.
~ baum vicki ii
Tell him I want to meet him at the four trees in a few days' time and discuss
~ Erin Hunter
My favorite Luna disc is our third, 'Penthouse,' a sparkly, moody album that works from track one all the way to track 11. Tom Verlaine of Television and Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab make guest appearances. I am also fond of the final Luna album, 'Rendezvous.'
~ Dean Wareham
Das ist meine Art, an der Verliebtheit zu arbeiten«, sagte Moritz. »Man könnte auch Plastikrosen kaufen, ein staatlich geprüftes Parfüm oder schokoladefreie Pralinen. Nur dass ihr das nicht gefallen würde. Ich bringe einen Strauß Parolen zum Rendezvous, den Duft der Freiheit und die Süße der Revolution.«
~ Juli Zeh