Top 55 Stray Quotes

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.

If need be, I’ll collect stray balls during the training sessions, just to get a chance to play with the likes of Luka Modric and Niko Kranjcar.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything… like stray cats and squirrels.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

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.

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.

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.

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 their fakeness all the time.

The animal birth control and anti-rabies programmes, which are under the threat of being altered or discontinued, need to be strengthened in order to address the issue of the stray dog menace.

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.’

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.

I have been writing my blog for several years. Whenever I have written about pertinent subjects, no one has supported them. For instance, the stray dog menace. I cycle in the morning every day, and I am still scared of stray dog attacks.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have always brought home stray animals – everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

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.

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.

I’m glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

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.

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.

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.

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.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

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

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

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.

Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every time I stray away from the Lord’s word, I find emptiness and darkness.

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.

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

It is great to see people feeding stray dogs, taking care of them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.