A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better. Paulo Coelho
If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious. Ann Jillian
A powerful critical talent who destroyed his own sense of proportion, Leavis was our brush with totalitarianism: we caught it as a mild fever instead of the full attack of meningitis. His career was the clearest possible proof that the course the arts take is not under the control of criticism. F. R. Leavis
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. J. M. Coetzee
Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices. Michael K. Williams