Quotes About Fluke

...maximize the serendipity around you.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

our successes depend on randomness).

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.

You got lucky that time.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.

Might human sapience be a fluke? Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr said—"Nothing demonstrates the improbability of high intelligence better than the fifty billion earthly species that failed to achieve it.

If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I'd show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.

I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.

hour after church services on Sunday." "No problem," Hannah said, heading off to the

How nice," I murmured. Uh-oh. That hadn't been the

Brenda knew it was just a fluke, that statistically speaking I was almost always at least partially full of shit, but the other two passengers were real impressed, like I was all at one with my natural habitat.

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

I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.