meeting people Quotes

“And, like you say, being gone all the time…in other places and meeting other people…Gosh, if anything like that can happen I don’t want to go away. I guess new people aren’t any better than old ones. I’ll bet they almost never are, Emily…I feel that you’re as good a friend as I’ve got. I don’t need to go and meet the people in other towns.”

“I love this part of getting to know someone. How every piece of new information, every new expression seems magical.”

“I remember you. ANYbody’d remember you, I guess, if they saw you once.”

“How, may I ask, did you get so you, you beautiful true-to-you doer? I’ve met many today but can honestly say that I’ve never met anyone you-er”

“Have we...met before, somewhere else?

“Perhaps when it rains again. Well then, we might meet again.”

“I hate the moments between meeting someone and leaving someone”

“once you begin to realize that they’re just like everyone else you’ve met before”

“I hardly knew Hannah Baker. I mean, I wanted to. I wanted to know her more than I had the chance. […] [W]e never had the chance to get closer. And not once did I take her for granted. Not once.”

“And the closer she was, the further apart she wanted to be. She just could not get it together, until she met him. Hate is heavy.”

″‘If I ever meet myself,’ said Zaphod, ‘I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what’s hit me.’”

“There’s a gentility on the road. A direct or personal question is out of bounds. But this is simple good manners anywhere in the world.”

“Feet, Feet, Feet. How many, many feet you meet.”

“In the house, and on the street how many, many feet you meet.”

“Left foot. Right foot. Feet. Feet. Feet. Oh, how many feet you meet!”

“A told B, and B told C, ‘I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.’ ”

Meet the feisty Clarice Bean and sympathize with her search for just a little peace and quiet amidst a family many of us will recognize only too well. The witty text and jazzy illustrations capture the wonderful wacky chaos of a large extended family from the hilarious vantage point of one of its youngest members.

“She met her friends going to the party, Bess, Jess, Tess and Cress. They landed on a hill in the moonlight to make the spell.”

“How is it that meeting a stranger can sometimes make us worse at making sense of that person than not meeting them?”

“Just then Sergio walked up. He is the nicest boy in the class- the most fun, with the best ideas. I love talking to him. Sometimes I think the two of us should get married when we grow up. I would like to spend the rest of my life looking at him, listening to him tell me things, doing things together. And I wanted him to meet Bisa Bea.”

“Here—we—are,” said Rabbit very slowly and carefully, “all—of—us, and then, suddenly, we wake up one morning and, what do we find? We find a Strange Animal among us. An animal of whom we have never even heard before! An animal who carries her family about with her in her pocket! Suppose I carried my family about with me in my pocket, how many pockets should I want?”

“He’s a capital fellow, and I wish we could get acquainted.”

The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty’s eyes said: “Who are you? What are you? Are you really the exquisite creature I imagine you to be? But for goodness’ sake don’t suppose,” her eyes added, “that I would force my acquaintance on you, I simply admire you and like you.” “I like you too, and you’re very, very sweet. And I should like you better still, if I had time,” answered the eyes of the unknown girl.