Top 100 Stray Quotes
#1. The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#2. I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
Abbie Cornish
#3. And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!"
Chris Rock
#4. That's the way it is with dreams. They scratch at your door. You see them through the peep hole: a stray dream looking for a home. You think it might go away if you ignore it. Wrong. It's still there when you open the door, smiling. Wagging its tail.
Monique Duval
#5. Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best. Then, calmly, almost as if it were a recognised form of verbal punctuation, she took aim with the needler and gutted a rat which had dared to stray into the corridor.
Alastair Reynolds
#6. A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?
Dean Alford
#7. Writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.
Ayn Rand
#8. Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.
Janet Taylor Lisle
#9. He reached down and picked up the ear and threw it at a stray. The dog sniffed it, snapped it up and wandered off down the street, chewing.
Michael Kazepis
#10. Soon after launching Sputnik in 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik II with its passenger Laika ("Barker," also known as Little Curly), the Soviet space dog. She was a female stray found on the streets of Moscow (and those godless Soviets let her die in orbit).
Lily Koppel
#11. It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.
Charlie Hunnam
#12. Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.
Kelley Armstrong
#13. People aren't daft, ... give 'em a bit of love and they'll never stray.
Kate Morton
#14. But Iluvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.
George Singleton
#16. I am not your dog that you whistle for; I'm not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your "baby"!
Joy Jennings
#17. If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
Joshua Lederberg
#18. I want to be careful to not stray too far away from what Batman is to me, but adding that element takes you in some directions that haven't been explored quite as much with the character.
David Finch
#19. As simple an act as reading or writing a sentence must be surrounded by perceptory nap and weave ... an itch, a stray memory from childhood, the distant sound of a barking dog, or something left over from the lunch that is found caught between the teeth.
David Brin
#20. Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud Science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way.
Alexander Pope
#21. ...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of the whale's brain wrapped around him like a gray constricting snake. I pitied him: but it was probably stray feedback from the Net...
Raphael Carter
#22. 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
#23. 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 it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
Ai Yazawa
#24. 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, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
Ethel Lynn Beers
#25. Her hair is tucked behind her ears, a few stray strands lazily brushing her cheek. I suddenly have the strongest sensation of wanting to reach out and curl them in place behind her ear.
Liz Kessler
#26. Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones.
Van Morrison
#27. He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again.
Even if it killed him.
Jennifer Lowery
#28. I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.
Brenda Perlin
#29. Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.
Diana Gabaldon
#30. I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
Akshay Kumar
#31. Seriously," the banker went on, "what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies."
"Murder.
Chris Bohjalian
#32. I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.
Ashley Greene
#33. Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
Rabindranath Tagore
#34. In the end, like any stray, I was conquered by the promise of continued food and shelter. Trust would take longer.
Kelley Armstrong
#35. One day the rotting remains of their libraries will disintegrate so completely that they will be indistinguishable from the world's wrack of stray eddies and meaningless scribbles, the untide of heat death. The
Yoon Ha Lee
#36. Never pick up a stray kitten ... unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. Wait!"
What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.
You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."
Cup coffee?"
Taste it."
What? Are you the coffee police or something?
Justina Chen
#38. Nellie looked into the forest and decided she was totally a city girl. It looked grim and foreboding. Her red hoodie seemed like an omen. "But Granny told me to never, ever stray off the path.
Sarwat Chadda
#39. I narrowed my eyes, making a colossal effort to keep them on his face and not stray down his glistening ... I slipped just once ... yes, glistening chest. Seriously?
Natasha Boyd
#40. You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
Seamus Heaney
#41. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
John Gay
#42. 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, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.
Eoin Colfer
#44. Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.
S.A. Tawks
#45. Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet - a rosy, warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness.
Thomas Hardy
#46. A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.
Bruce Timm
#47. And that is close to saying that a woman can have no needs, desires, purpose, or calling so compelling and so important that she should not set it aside in an instant, because of a stray sperm.
Katha Pollitt
#48. I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
Brian Setzer
#49. I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.
Matthew Scully
#50. The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
Laozi
#51. Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.
God, and not we, hath safely fought to day.
William Shakespeare
#52. We don't stray away from good doctrine or truth by focusing on justice and compassion for those in the margins - rather, we find Jesus and truth in the margins.
Ken Wytsma
#53. Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
William Wordsworth
#55. 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 headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there. (ARC p. 63)
Anthony Marra
#56. Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;
Robert Harris
#57. He sat down, his eyes locked on hers. Although his gaze did stray to her lips, if he was honest with himself, and he did think about kissing her. But then he locked on to her eyes again. She
Melanie Dickerson
#59. Death walks at night in the aisles of a sick ward, searching for those whose defenses are lowered, who may stray unwittingly into its path through loneliness and fear.
Diana Gabaldon
#60. They, who have no eyes in their face, are not called blind. They alone are blind, O Nanak, who stray away from their Lord.
Guru Angad
#61. A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
Wendell Berry
#63. This stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and higher in his chest, awakening inarticulate longings and, inseparable from them, a piercing, unfamiliar sorrow.
Olga Grushin
#64. I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.
George Monbiot
#65. I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.
Dexter Fletcher
#66. He turned, a stray slip of moonlight illuminating a sliver of his face, blue eyes glowing almost preternaturally in the darkness.
Kelley Armstrong
#67. However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
Wally Lamb
#68. You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!
Rachel Vincent
#69. It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here.
Geraldine Brooks
#70. Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray
Dorothy Parker
#71. With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
She's constant only in inconstancy.
Ovid
#72. I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.
Robert Breault
#73. She'd never really liked the book. It seemed to her that it tried to tell her what to do and what to think. Don't stray from the path, don't open that door, but hate the wicked witch because she is wicked. Oh, and believe that shoe size is a good way of choosing a wife.
Terry Pratchett
#74. If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
Patrick Rothfuss
#75. A row of daffodils and red tulips nestled against the walkway beneath my feet. Stray weeds peeked up through the cracks in the concrete, a reminder that that nature had the final say. No matter how much mankind bulldozed or built, all was vulnerable to Mother Nature's whims.
Pamela Crane
#76. I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
Franz Grillparzer
#77. And the girl gets married?
I have a bunch of stray cats
in my yard
I wouldn't have a daughter
Jack Kerouac
#78. Lake breathed out a happy sigh as she approached the row filled with guns. Matilda was my first, but ladies, you know how to make a girl want to stray.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#79. You always were the hot head. You got a temper in you that can't be tamed, yet you also got a soft spot for stray dogs, kids in trouble and damsels in distress. See why folks label you a complex conundrum.
Vonnie Davis
#81. Rowdy fought everybody.
He fought boys and girls.
Men and women.
He fought stray dogs.
Hell, he fought the weather.
He'd throw wild punches at rain.
Honestly.
Sherman Alexie
#82. Should doesn't belong in a relationship. It supposes one person's will is more right than the other's. That is just not true. Stray from should.
Vaun Murphrey
#83. 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 away.
John Gray
#84. The high tide!" King Alfred cried.
"The high tide and the turn!
As a tide turns on the tall grey seas,
See how they waver in the trees,
How stray their spears, how knock their knees,
How wild their watchfires burn!
G.K. Chesterton
#85. Brightness ... I believe you stray into sarcasm."
"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it,screaming at the top of my lungs.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. Would you be happy! hearken, then, the way:
Heed not to-morrow, heed not yesterday;
The magic words of life are here and now -
O fools, that after some to-morrow stray!
Omar Khayyam
#87. The guy said, "Hop in the back." He craned around in his seat and batted stray items aside. Reacher opened the door and slid in and used his hip to finish the job. He closed the door and the woman hit the gas and they took off, cruising easy through the last thirty-some miles of America.
Lee Child
#88. Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
Thomas Campion
#89. Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.
Demi Lovato
#90. I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.
Randeep Hooda
#91. There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joseph Joubert
#92. But there was something more miserable still - it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years.
Edith Wharton
#93. Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs
Leslie Caron
#94. I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
Janette Barber
#95. My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.
Drake Bell
#96. 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 invading monster.
Rick Riordan
#98. Hungry for breath
like a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air.
Jack Campbell
#99. I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
Charlotte Bronte
#100. Zach tagged along after her, feeling like a stray mutt panting after a purebred poodle.
Jami Davenport
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