Encounters Quotes

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.