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Quotes About Encounter

It's always disconcerting when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, 'I know who you are.'
~ Diana Taylor
I don't know Jeb Bush. I've never met him.
~ Michael T. Flynn
Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.
~ Will Friedle
In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
~ Dan Gilroy
As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
I forget what I wore for my first encounter with Mark Zuckerberg. I know it wasn't a suit - that would have seemed out of place in the rigorously casual world of Facebook. I probably wore what I usually wear, a pair of jeans and a Gap T-shirt, maybe my black sneakers.
~ Tom Junod
We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
~ Meriwether Lewis
In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there's also been a spring festival in America.
~ Joshua Bell
When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.
~ Joy Harjo
I met Jack Nicholson, who lived up to his persona, and when we met, he lifted the sunglasses he was wearing at 2 in the morning, and giggling, he told me, 'You look the way I feel all the time.'
~ Jim Breuer
I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few years ago, and I lost it! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, and I didn't know how to speak. It was crazy. He was nice enough to talk to my family and me for 10 minutes, but I remember babbling away about nonsense.
~ Sterling Knight
I get asked one question a lot: 'What celebrity encounter would render you starstruck?' The answer is simple - anyone who's ever strapped on a Redskins helmet, much less coached them to three Super Bowls.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Meeting Salman for the first time was my fan moment. He is very endearing... he looks super hot in everything.
~ Daisy Shah
If we allow an encounter with a given thing to be shaped by this expectation that it may last, every such experience will be spoiled and falsified, and ultimately it will be prevented from unfolding its most proper and authentic potential and fertility.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Piensas de veras que tanto le habría estremecido tu leve paso, que huye como brisa de primavera? Si, asustasteis su corazón: pero más viejos terrores se desencadenaron en él al choque de ese contacto.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
landed against a man who looked up with the anonymous familiarity of a drunk and shoved me hard away.
~ Ralph Ellison
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water....
~ Ray Bradbury
He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through. Perhaps his nose detected a faint perfume, perhaps the skin on the backs of his hands, on his face, felt the temperature rise at this one spot where a person's standing might raise the immediate atmosphere ten degrees for an instant.
~ Ray Bradbury
one night I met up with Death's friend and didn't know it.
~ Ray Bradbury
Por qué será- dijo él una vez, en la entrada del Metro-- que tengo la sensación de conocerte desde hace muchos años? -Porque le aprecio a usted- replicó ella-, y no deseo nada suyo. Y también porque nos conocemos mutuamente.
~ Ray Bradbury