Quotes About Fluke

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.

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.

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.

It [success] is really by mistake.

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

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

What's more, random events can mimic nonrandom ones. Even the most sophisticated scientists can have difficulty telling the difference between a real effect and a random fluke. Randomness can make placebos seem like miracle cures, or harmless compounds appear to be deadly poisons, and can even create subatomic particles out of nothing.

Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking, the Commander said, just a fluke. All we've done is return things to Nature's norm.

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.

It did not seem (and please destroy this letter after you have read it) that someone so clownish could disrupt something so noble and time-tested and seemingly strong, something that had been with us literally every day of our lives. We had taken, in other words, a profound gift for granted. Did not know the gift was a fluke, a chimera, a wonderful accidental of consensus and mutual understanding.

I think our first record was a fluke, really. The fact that it went platinum and all that, it was all due to one video and the timing being just right.

I thought how lucky you might be to find not one but two extraordinary men to love - and what a fluke it was if they happened to love you back.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart.

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

The best things in life are the things you do by mistake.

This hostility to science, in the face of its obvious triumphs and benefits, is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ evidence that it is something outside the mainstream of human development, perhaps a fluke.

'The Falling' was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn't think anything would come of it.

His arrival at the Alamo is one of history's great juxtapositional flukes, as if Teddy Roosevelt or Mark Twain had darted onto the Titanic at the last minute. The man and the place had almost nothing to do with each other, yet their stories would now be forever intertwined.

No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm sure it's just a fluke" "Doesn't make any difference whether it's a fluke or not. It shouldn't have happened. When a person buys a box of lucky charms he's got expectations

My main memory of 'Soft Sounds' was that I was so convinced that 'Psychopomp' was this fluke - I had this real pressure of avoiding the sophomore slump.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.