Quotes About Encounter

Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? (John 4:29 NIV)

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.

I do remember, the first time we met [with Patti Smith], the door opening with a squeak. And then there was this very beautiful girl looking out.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

Goddess" he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child." Will I see you again?" Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. "In the face of every woman you meet

I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Good-bye...if we meet...

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter

Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each other already, because we met on the river.

We had a notion to get out and join the sixty soldiers, but upon reflecting that there were four hundred of the Indians, we concluded to go on and join the Indians.

The expeditions were often out of meat, and scant of clothes, but they always had the furniture and other requisites for the mass; they were always prepared, as one of the quaint chroniclers of the time phrased it, to 'explain hell to the savages.