Top 55 Stray Quotes

Never stray from life’s purpose. Refrain from counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own.

If you‘re locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn’t have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you’re not allowed to stray from that, you’re going to have a stilted scene.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That’s a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

I have a new little stray dog that I’ve had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk – he‘s this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don’t indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don’t stray. We said, ‘We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.’

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 a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can’t stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!

I’ve always tried to stray towards characters who are way more faceted than your standard leading man role, and I’ve been fortunate to play some parts who have this awkward tension to them.

I use By Terry lip gloss religiously – and I always have Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream with me just in case. Between the two of them, I’ve got everything covered, from chapped lips to stray marks to doing a simple glossy eye.

From paying off friends‘ tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can’t get rid of my money fast enough.

When you’re an athlete, you’ve got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you’re doing. I wasn’t a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.

I’m very proud of being a Backstreet Boy, so why stray too far from the mold?

Theater is so precious about each word – not that it’s a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.

Please be nice, be kind to stray animals, dogs, and adopt them.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

I’ve learned that there’s a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don’t understand, or they miss the point. And I’m not saying that’s a good thing or a bad thing; it’s just something we have to contend with.

Fans are always talking about endgame as though endgame has been chosen from minute 1. I don’t know that you could talk to a single series creator that would say confidently ‘Where I started is where I finished, and there was no way in hell I was going to stray from that path.’ ‘Dawson’s’ being the perfect example.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked.

I’ve always felt it’s ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You’re my friend, you’re my wife, you’re my girlfriend, you’re my co-worker. This is your box, and you’re not allowed to stray outside of it.

As a Canadian, I feel like we all have a stake in the business here. And no matter how far you stray – and I’ve been down in L.A. for a long time – no matter how far you stray you have a stake in the state of the business… It really does matter and I’m always rooting for the entire country.

I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I’m trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn’t stray too far into either.

It’s such an advantage to be able to hit short irons low on command. When it’s windy, you’ll hit more greens. But low shots are a great strategy in calm conditions, too: The less time the ball hangs in the air, the less time it has to stray off line from the flagstick.

In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it’s like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.

If you’re from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you’re lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don’t stray all that far.

We just started filming ‘Stray Dog’ really close to the finishing of ‘Winter‘s Bone,’ down in Southern Missouri.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won’t stray too far from politics.

Understanding who you are is saying, ‘You’re great; you have tons of confidence, and don’t ever forget that.’ And that helped me, man. Because when things weren’t going right, I thought, ‘You’ve got to remember who you are. Don’t stray from that. Don’t let these things get you down.’

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

I’ve lost so many deals from so many people because I will not stray from my beliefs.

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.

I think people could get obsessed with the idea of perfection. So with that, you kind of stray away from your raw imperfections. Like, I don’t think people realize that people are OK with you missing a note here or hearing the rasp in your voice.

Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn’t prepared myself to be an actor.

Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don’t like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to hear some of the new energy that a band will put into it, but you kind of want to hear some of the basic parts of the song. I mean, that’s what makes it the song that you like.

If I can hear the music then no, I don’t hit a wrong note. But if I can’t hear the music because the audience is screaming or the sound system is bad, then I’m subject to stray.

It’s all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.

One airball is not going to stray away from me shooting a few more.

I had two cats growing up that were indoor/outdoor and both of them died from being hit by a car. One of them, she didn’t have an ID tag on, so someone just thought it was a stray cat I highly recommend to keep your cats indoors. Their lives end up a lot longer.

I’m playing with music and working on different types of music. But I’ve realised that I can’t really stray from what is my marker.

Stray cattle roam every lane and alley, but we are building cow shelters and trying to resolve the problem.

Football made me want to train and stay disciplined. It kept me away from things like drugs. Young people are faced with the temptation to stray all the time.

I’m always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

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 they’re looking at – by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

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.

Even printed, on pages that are bound, sentences remain unsettled organisms. Years later, I can always reach out to smooth a stray hair. And yet, at a certain point, I must walk away, trusting them to do their work. I am left looking over my shoulder, wondering if I might have structured one more effectively.

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 hunger.

At the beginning of ‘Solo,’ Chewbacca is a stray dog from the streets who has been beaten. He is very guarded and not trusting of the outside world. When the situation arises, he calls upon the powers he has and can do amazing things.

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 I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

There are certain types of stand-up, who are very successful, who do one type of joke, and never stray out of that. The audience knows that he’s the depressive comedian, he’s the up-beat, crazy comic. He’s the one that talks about real life.

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I’ve always collected stray photographs; there’s a great deal of memory in them.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines – hundreds of thousands, by some estimates – live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we’re not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn’t being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.

I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.