Quotes About Encounter

Every person is a new door to a different world.

People meet when they need to meet.

When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?"

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And I took a 7 to do that.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriendand he's a priest.

el azar nos ofrece su doble vía vos con tus soledades yo con las mías

Podrías acercarte de sorpresa y decirme «¿Qué tal?»

Los pájaros escapan como amores y como amores vuelven a encontrarnos son sencillos como las soledades y repetidos como los insomnios.

Tenemos que apurarnos hacia el encuentro, porque en nuestro caso el futuro es un inevitable desencuentro.

My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

At the brunch, I told her I had been in Alaska a few months earlier. And she opened her mouth wide in a look of genuine surprise, as if no one had ever gone to Alaska before. "Why didn't you look me up?" she said, again sounding sincere. I made a joke about not wanting to get shot. She made me promise to look her up in Wasilla next time. (How does one "look up" Sarah Palin in Alaska, anyway? Is she listed? Can we become texting buddies?)

I happened to run into Anton at the Arkham Public Library just a few days later. I was walking down a shadowy hallway when he came bustling out of the Forbidden, Unspeakably Dangerous, Never-To-Be-Checked-Out-By-Anyone Section with a notepad in his hand

I believe That someone is already there and is waiting For the pale appearance of another.

An "event" is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us as something unaccountable, something that we cannot quite get our minds around even as we recognize the great importance of the encounter. Badiou identifies

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

so this crow comes and it starts quacking at us.

Yes, I'm back, " he said, "And look who I ran into."Horace grinned at him. "i hope you ran into him hard.""As hard as I could.

No one's ever really ready for a troll.