Stray Quotes
174 quotes by 160 authors
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
— Charles de Lint
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Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional…
— Rick Riordan
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The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not…
— Janet Frame
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Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we…
— T. Colin Campbell
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I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances…
— Cheryl Strayed
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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But…
— Unknown Author
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HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book,…
— Eoin Colfer
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I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far…
— John Gray
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He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the…
— Anthony Marra
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Jace?" She offered him the glass. "I am a man," he told her. "And men do not consume pink beverages. Get the gone, woman and…
— Cassandra Clare
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Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought…
— Ai Yazawa
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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will…
— Cassandra Clare
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So this is the young man who has intentions toward my little girl." Bobby shifted in his seat and crossed his legs. "It is not…
— Ally Carter
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New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s…
— Bill Maher
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Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
— Thomas Campion
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But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live…
— William Blake
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and…
— Robert Reich
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Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain…
— Tina Brown
Who Wrote These Stray Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 174 Stray Quotes, led by these top contributors: