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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. -- Ivan Turgenev
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. -- Bob Balaban
'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. -- Tom DeLonge
I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it. -- Nick Frost
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. -- Bob Balaban
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is. -- Isaac Asimov
Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh... -- Muse
Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good. -- David Duchovny
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. -- Tom DeLonge
Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next. -- Jonathan Nolan
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid. -- Denis Villeneuve
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later. -- Werner Herzog
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans. -- Rick Yancey
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. -- Heraclitus
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. -- Maya Angelou
I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God. -- Vin Diesel
One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. -- Luis Palau
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. -- Wayne Dyer
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. -- Park Chan-wook
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. -- Pablo Picasso
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired. -- George Jean Nathan
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. -- Stephan Jenkins
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical. -- Chester Bennington
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. -- John Milton
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. -- Albert Camus
Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity. -- Lionel Blue
There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it. -- Maisie Williams
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. -- Pope Paul VI
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.' -- Neale Donald Walsch
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. -- David Brin
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen. -- Margaret Atwood
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. -- Piers Anthony
When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them! -- Kenneth Kamler
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. -- Herman Hesse
I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives. -- John Bradley-West
Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point. -- Pete Docter
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. -- Wentworth Miller
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. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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. -- Bob Keeshan
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. -- Christopher McCandless
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. -- Sai Baba
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -- Albert Schweitzer
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.' -- Maya Angelou
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. -- Alvar Aalto
The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves? -- Hannah Kent
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life. -- Pete Rozelle
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence. -- Seth Shostak
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. -- Maya Angelou
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. -- Stanislav Grof
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. -- Max Lucado
I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. -- Stephane Hessel
you draw(the painter) -- Sarah Dunant
The more people I meet the happier I become. -- Samuel Beckett
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. -- P. D. James
Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become. -- Shannon L. Alder
Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path. -- Sameh Elsayed
No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together. -- Shannon L. Alder
If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature. -- Federico Chini
I'm in favor of sexual encounters. -- Gore Vidal
He that goeth farre hath many encounters. -- George Herbert
Chance encounters are what keep us going. -- Haruki Murakami
How one encounters reality is a choice. -- Martin Heidegger
There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny! -- Elie Wiesel
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind. -- Denis Waitley
I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters. -- Ryan Kwanten
All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. -- Donald Creighton
Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. -- William Kristol
It is the encounters with people that make life worth living. -- Guy de Maupassant
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. -- Juliette Binoche
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. -- Jean Cocteau
He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters. -- Paulo Coelho
When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is. -- R. C. Sproul
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters. -- Asa Don Brown
Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology. -- Bill Johnson
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism. -- Nic Pizzolatto
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters -- George Monbiot
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. -- Abraham Kaplan
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life. -- J. K. Rowling
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem. -- Warren Buffett
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony. -- James Allen
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. -- Charles Traub
Miracles happens everyday. You have to open your heart, mind and soul to see these miraculous encounters. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them. -- Ryan Montgomery
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. -- Nancy Gibbs
The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it. -- William James
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters. -- Paulo Coelho
Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind? -- Sherry Turkle
Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control. -- Mel Lawrenz
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies. -- Charles Kuralt
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. -- Alfred Doblin
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. -- Charles Kuralt
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. -- Lucretius
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him. -- Brendan Behan
I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love. -- Madonna Ciccone
While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Ah, yes, my social life "? a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush. -- Robert Breault
Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us. -- Graham Cooke
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. -- Immanuel Kant
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason. -- Nigel Dennis
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. -- Mark Jenkins
We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves. -- Leo Buscaglia
Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship. -- Oliver Bullough
It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented. -- Susan T. Fiske
It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented. -- Susan T. Fiske
The tough challenges we encounters, makes us stronger, and wiser. With each victory we gain something of value; our character is strengthened. -- Ellen J. Barrier
In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility. -- Christopher West

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