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Quotes About Encounter

Two souls don't find each other by simple accident.
~ J.L. Borges
He's not going anywhere," Clint said. As Clint stepped inside he saw Toby Carmichael coming toward him with his hand outstretched. He was shocked, because his
~ J.R. Roberts
He came into her life wearing a Syracuse ball cap and blue jeans that had holes in them.
~ J.R. Ward
He and that woman were probably going to have to cross paths again. She was about to have a big problem in her life
~ J.R. Ward
He frowned, thinking of when he'd found Jane in that crumpled Audi at the side of the road.
~ J.R. Ward
A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes--the holy con-man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con-man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx.
~ Jack Kerouac
Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.
~ Ann Hood
I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator - we were the only two people in there - and she's been one of my very dearest friends since.
~ Holly Hunter
I remember Steven Tyler coming up to me once. He was like, 'Oh my god, you have a God given talent,' and I freaked out. He's so sweet.
~ Jessica Sanchez
The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.
~ Todd Barry
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
~ Elisha Cuthbert
Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then.
~ Spike Lee
Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
~ Don King
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
~ Kathy Acker
I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.
~ Isabella Bird
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
The most fascinating and satisfying encounter so far was the goliath tigerfish of the Congo. I first caught one in 1991, and then again while filming the second season of 'River Monsters' in 2009. Its appearance is quite unbelievable, like a giant piranha, with inch-long interlocking teeth.
~ Jeremy Wade
Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!
~ Mark McKinney
I had an opportunity to meet Kobe and he's just an unbelievable person.
~ Travis Kelce
I have seen their backs before.
~ Duke of Wellington
So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)
~ Robert Walser
Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.
~ Paul Hornung
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
~ Brennan Manning