Flukes Quotes

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

Ron Paul's revolution isn't a fluke. It's the future.

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

"Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies". That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."

Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.

I had retail businesses. They were beauty businesses, skin care and all that. I got into that as a fluke. I was going to open up a gym. I just had a Men's Fitness cover come out that was the third bestselling of Men's Fitness covers.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.