Quotes About Encounter

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.

I like going to New York because I don't get recognised there - although, the first time I was there, I'd only been in the city an hour when the tallest guy came up to me on Fifth Avenue and said my name, gave me a high-five, and then just walked off.

When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and walked off, but I am sure it was him.

John Cena actually showed up to do a song with Snoop in L.A. and he walked in and was like, 'What the hell are you doing here?' I was like, 'You didn't know? I got let go. I'm back bodyguarding now. He was like, 'What? That's crazy!' I was like, 'It's all good. Good to see you. Appreciate it.'

I'm always leery about bumping into somebody. One time I was with my wife in a restaurant, I saw somebody from my undercover days, and I got up and we just walked out.

I used to go to tea at the St. Regis with Dali. I was standing there and Mr. Dali walked over to me and asked if I would like to have tea with him and Truman Capote. Normally if a person would come up to you in a magazine store and ask you to have tea, you'd run, wouldn't you? But I sort of had a feeling that this was legitimate.

In Manchester a girl pulled a lock of my hair out once. She hugged me and then tugged my head and just walked away hugging it.

I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?

So there are ups and downs, but the best is just the looks on people's faces when they meet me for the first time, because I am a real-life, walking, talking giant. It's not every day you see someone like me walking down the street.

The first time I got recognized in the Sates, it was by Mike Tyson. He sang 'Cruel Summer' at us as we were walking out of the hotel to go to the beach.

Sal and I were in the mall just shopping, and we're walking through this retail store and little old lady goes 'NO! You're not gonna get at me.' We were just shopping. She was looking for cameras, she was like 'I know who you are, you crazies!' and she walked away from us.

I was playing a gig in Greece in September 2003 and this guy walks up to me and says, 'Hey Tiesto I just heard you play; you're amazing. I want you to play at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.' I looked at him, like, 'Sure pal!'

I have changed a lot as a person coming into showbiz and meeting a cross section of people from all walks of life; it was an amazing experience. But that's the privilege I had of being early into showbiz.

I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.

If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

Meeting Ryan Reynolds was really cool, and Blake Lively.

It doesn't matter if they're in this block or that block: my heart is for all people to know and encounter the love of God.

When I used to go to Bombay to run, I would often meet Raj Kapoor and he would take me to RK Studio.

Lionel Blair came bouncing up once and said, 'I love you two.'

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.