Daily Encounters Quotes

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

I don't think of it so much as the shows I did or the film sets. I mean, sometimes you'll get a nice location, but it's more, 'Who am I meeting on a day-to-day basis?' Often the rehearsals are a lot more fun than the show itself.

The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.