Stray Quotes

174 quotes by 160 authors

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we… — Wally Lamb
I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and… — Bruce Cockburn
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,… — Ethel Lynn Beers
I stray away from formulaic, the formatted. — Christina Aguilera
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere. — Abbie Cornish
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and… — Gene Cernan
Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul. — Waylon Jennings
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray. — Jules Verne
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on oneâ€™s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential â€œyouâ€ which you… — John Galt
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what… — Clive Thompson
Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray. — Robert Bridges
For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands… — Victoria Wood
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte
But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe… — David Letterman
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word… — Harold B. Lee
A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by… — Marc Ian Barasch
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. — William Cowper
When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours… — Richard Simmons
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were… — Tim Burton
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when… — Diane Setterfield

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160 authors contributed a total of 174 Stray Quotes, led by these top contributors: