Quotes About Encounter

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise.

Every film is a human encounter. It's people trying to collaborate and create something together.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. I had been recommended by the editors of 'The New York Review of Books,' where I'd worked as an editorial assistant.

I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, but how well prepared are we for this? Have we thought how we will approach them? We need to start thinking about that.

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what?

Once, after I had just worked out, I hopped on the elevator at the gym only to look up and see Conan O'Brien on it with me. I was so sad. I was all sweaty, but I love him so much, and I couldn't help but nerd out on him.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.

I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home.

Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.

Didn't never say I'd kill the man. 'Course, never said I wouldn't, neither. Y'see, I got a mind to git out and see this country one day, Saxon. Ain't never gwine leave these hills ferever, but thur's a passel o' thangs I don't know nothin' about. And who knows? Maybe whilst I'm a-travelin', I'll come acrost ole Barton Winslow. The world's big, but thur's only so many places a man can hide.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

As they ate, Morgan eyed the man sitting across from her. A while ago they'd been in the sleeping bag together and that hadn't worked out too well. Now they were sitting facing each other, and she didn't think that was much better.

Ash caught another Pokemon. We got into our first battle last tuesday and every since that we have been pretty on edge. Every other trainer that we have run into has been nice. Most of them are around Ash's age and I have met a few new Pokemon. One of our favorites was this girl and her Togepi. I think her name is name was Misty? Ash seemed to like her a lot. I hope we run into her again.

Professor Kukui walked into the room and so did his wife with a notepad.

The problem with life was that even if you didn't go looking for trouble, trouble sometimes came looking for you.

Sometimes airport security people recognize me. I'll go through the whole screening process and at the end they'll go, 'Hey, man, I really like your work.' That's so cool.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

As I trotted down the hall, Fritz was holding the street door open and three people were entering in the shape of a sandwich – a dick, Zorka, and another dick.

She marched across to his desk, extended a hand, and told him cordially, "You look exactly right! Just as I thought! I would—" She broke it off because she was getting a deep freeze. He had moved no muscle, and the expression on his face, while not belligerent, was certainly not cordial. She drew back. He spoke. "I don't shake hands with you because you might later think it an imposition. We'll see. Sit down, Miss Eads.