Strange Encounter Quotes

#1. Grover went off with his satyr friends to spread the word about our strange encounter with the magic of Pan. Within an hour, the satyrs were all running around agitated, asking where the nearest espresso bar was.

Rick Riordan

#2. We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

Arthur Machen

#3. If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Julian Fellowes

#4. We woke as if from a nightmare only to find that the ugly are still not beautiful and the dull still do not sparkle.

Jennifer Donnelly

#5. Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Evan Osnos

#6. The more you genuinely praise people in your consciousness, the easier it is to tune into your own inner joy.

Christopher Dines

#7. Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

Winston Churchill

#8. My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Yanis Varoufakis

#9. The Toyota plowed headlong into the boy. But there was no impact. No screams, no blood, no bending metal.
The boy simply dematerialized in a swirl of white light.

Laura Oliva

#10. If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Henry Van Dyke

#12. I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

Andrew Solomon

#13. The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

Sufjan Stevens

#14. The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Marshall McLuhan

#15. My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

Cynthia Ozick

#16. You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Dar Williams

#17. It was plain that this lady was not accustomed to being interrupted, much less contradicted. She had probably never in her life had that salutary experience.

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

#18. There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

John Maus