Strayed Quotes

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. - Cheryl Strayed

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Where once my careless childhood strayed,/ A stranger yet to pain. - Thomas Gray

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. - Sylvester Stallone

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. - W. H. Auden

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. - W. H. Auden

What surprised me is how far the conversation strayed from the topic at hand. There were people discussing AIDS and diseases and health issues, and that was so distant from the true issue, which is a unique athletic event on our lake. - Michael Zellmann

We've fallen apart a little bit when we strayed away from our game plan. We need to focus on doing what we do the whole game. - Dan Kallaugher

We opened the second half on an 8-0 run and we're down two points, 27-25. And it strayed close like that throughout. Entering the fourth quarter, we're down four. They went into their patented delay; we ran out of gas. We just couldn't get the lead. - Bob McIntyre

We have strayed from a rational (oil) market equilibrium and it is our duty to reset this market's reference points... If the current pressures were to be perpetuated, they could threaten the pursuit of global growth, as we have learned - in a different context, it is true -- from past oil shocks. - Laurent Fabius