Meeting Someone Quotes

• I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

  Bella Abzug

  Coffee, Identity, Sunglasses

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• We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Someday, Meetings, Humans

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

  Moto Hagio

  Meetings, Humans, Parting

  "Fictional character: Subaru". TV Series ".hack//SIGN", www.imdb.com. (2002–).

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• It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

  James Patterson

  Dream, Book, Character

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• I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Class, Needs

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• Summers are the best. And I figured summer was my best time for meeting someone, too, because in the summer people are looking for someone to snuggle up with for the winter. And because in the summer I could take off my shirt.

  Andrew Tobias

  Summer, Winter, People

  Andrew Tobias (2010). “The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

  Helen Fisher

  Mind, Three, Firsts

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• Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.

  Max Lucado

  Reading, Uncanny, Meetings

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

  Lenora Crichlow

  Reflection, Personality, Ethics

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• I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

  John Cusack

  Couple, Night, Thinking

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• Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Character, Simple

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• That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

  Katie Aselton

  Giving Up, Magic Moments, Sparks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Leonardo DiCaprio] is so cool. He was one of the coolest, down-to-earth people that I think I've ever met. I've never experienced meeting someone like that, [who could] just be so cool and down-to-earth and welcoming.

  Quindon Tarver

  Thinking, People, Earth

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

  Rose Leslie

  Thinking, Play, Trying

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Trying, Want, Scripts

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Sex, Sleep, Forgiving

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.31, Penguin

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• Being of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it's all about. I feel that's the only way that you get fulfillment out of life.

  Keke Palmer

  Kids, Might, Able

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing?   In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and looks down. The one place he can't look is that place he must: within.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Looks, Hierarchy

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.151, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Queens, Kings, Real

  "How to Win the 2012 Fiction Contest!" by Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 01, 2011.

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• I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.

  Rick Rubin

  Thinking, People, Anxiety

  "Dave Grohl Vs Rick Rubin". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. March 21, 2013.

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• She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.

  Yasutaka Tsutsui

  Dream, Heart, Doors

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• Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Better Person, Meetings, Persons

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• I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

  Jude Law

  Father, Becoming, Natural

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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