Top 100 Fluke Quotes
#1. What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing on your neck the other day was just a fluke. I guess not--looks like you get off on picking up a few souvenirs when you...get off. ~Crash
Jordan Castillo Price
#2. Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
Mary Gordon
#3. Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.
Jay Carney
#4. The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.
Shawn Ashmore
#5. Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.
Courtney Barnett
#6. People can believe in their own progress and success. They can even believe in strangers success. But when it comes to success of anyone from their social circle, they think, it must be by fluke and the other person doesn't deserve it.
Shon Mehta
#7. Will had been ruined by fluke circumstances - wrong place, wrong time. And he wasn't only being robbed of his future, but also his past; all of his hard work, the respect of his family, his fiancee, career, and friends ...
Shane Stadler
#8. You are good at something for a reason. God designed you this way, on purpose. It isn't fake or a fluke or small. These are the mind and heart and hands and voice you've been given, so use them.
Jen Hatmaker
#9. It has to be mad, if it's Love. If it isn't, it's just a fluke of nature
D.N. Joshi
#10. As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.
Armie Hammer
#11. The first time it happens, it can be explained. Accident. Experiment. Fluke. Everything was confusing. The lines blurred.
The second time is when it really happens for the first time.
Leah Raeder
#12. What happened back there - it wasn't a fluke, Melly. We didn't have sex because of the danger or because we got carried away by my bite. When we get out of here, we're going to do it again. And again.
Thea Harrison
#13. 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.
Seth Shostak
#14. I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful.
Rupert Grint
#15. We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.
Anne M. Chappel
#16. We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.
Michael Shermer
#17. Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson
#18. 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.
Michael J. Fox
#19. 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.
James Welch
#20. A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.
Richard Greenberg
#21. 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.
Margaret Atwood
#22. I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
Nancy Keenan
#23. Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.
Douglas Coupland
#24. I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.
Jim Lynch
#25. A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
Jack Nicklaus
#26. By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?
Lizz Winstead
#27. "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."
Mila Kunis
#28. Roy Jones still number one and it's gon' be that way baby! For all these doubters, him [points to Larry Merchant] and the rest of them that said Roy Jones is a fluke, now they know.
Roy Jones Jr.
#29. Ron Paul's revolution isn't a fluke. It's the future.
Gary Johnson
#30. My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.
Byron Katie
#31. Guys, I haven't been doing this for a long time, it's a fluke! I'm gonna share this BAFTA award with all the young dreamers who are determined, who are hard working, who are quite frankly amazing. This is also for you. Blessings for your path and God bless.
John Boyega
#32. How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?
Paul Auster
#33. I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.
Taylor Swift
#34. 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.
Greg Graffin
#35. My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
Robert Harris
#36. Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it was even money whether the base pairs you read would code for protein or the technical specs on the Denver sewer system.
Peter Watts
#37. I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.
Eve Plumb
#38. Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.
Maxx Williams
#39. The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
Robin Williams
#41. You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!
Christopher Paul Curtis
#42. In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.
Lizzy Caplan
#43. I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson
#44. The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'
Sandra Oh
#46. 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.
Joan Rivers
#47. I did as he asked without meaning to. I was still trying to accept that the first time wasn't a fluke - Dylan sucked in bed. Either he didn't get the concept of satisfying a woman, or he didn't care.
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#48. 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.
Drew Waters
#49. I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.
Gianluca Basile
#50. He sees our lineal success as a fortunate fluke: "Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay." Gould
Bill Bryson
#52. I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.
Paul Reubens
#53. Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.
Willie Geist
#54. So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is
we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.
Rush Limbaugh
#55. 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.
Diablo Cody
#56. Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
Willard Scott
#57. I believe that ... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon ...
Julia Margaret Cameron
#58. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.
Rick Warren
#59. The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
Kelly Lynch
#60. What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex?
Rush Limbaugh
#62. There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
Terry McMillan
#63. Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.
Gabe Paul
#64. I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.
Bonnie Raitt
#65. 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.
Martin Rees
#66. In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson
#67. First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius.
"Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
Alethea Kontis
#68. Now the son of a bitch was saying it was a fluke. Cloud nine to complete shit in ten seconds. The guy wasn't just an emotional roller coaster; he was a whole damned amusement park.
S.W. Vaughn
#69. Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.
Sandra Fluke
#70. Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.
Christopher Moore
#71. Good Friends are like sunshine. A day is gloomy without them.
Joanne Fluke
#72. The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.
Ken Norris
#73. Pack them into a small round mold, or form a ball and flatten it to resemble a hockey puck (or a baby Brie if you're not from Minnesota and into winter sports.)
Joanne Fluke
#74. For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.
Joanne Fluke
#75. IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.
Joanne Fluke
#76. You'll never see a hearse towing a U-Haul.
Joanne Fluke
#77. Two dates in one night - not bad at all! Hannah's frown changed to a grin as she lifted the lid and dropped her very favourite five-year-old pair of Nikes inside.
Joanne Fluke
#78. Why were you smiling like that?" "Smiling like what?" "Like the cat that got into the cream pot.
Joanne Fluke
#79. Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.
Christopher Moore
#80. A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Joanne Fluke
#81. There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.
Joanne Fluke
#82. three men can keep a secret, but only if two of them are dead.
Joanne Fluke
#83. We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.
Sandra Fluke
#84. Lecture your children every day. You may not know what they did wrong, but they do!
Joanne Fluke
#86. Conversation over coffee tended to be candid and invited confidences.
Joanne Fluke
#87. Time & Money. They're always the deciding factors.
Joanne Fluke
#88. Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.
Sandra Fluke
#89. I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.
Sandra Fluke
#90. I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.
Sandra Fluke
#91. Solving crimes certainly wasn't as easy as they made it seem in the movies.
Joanne Fluke
#92. Investigating is a process of elimination. You have to explore all the possibilities, and whatever's left, no matter how implausible, has got to be it.
Joanne Fluke
#93. It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.
Sandra Fluke
#94. they constituted the list of names her mother and
Joanne Fluke
#95. From the slope of Haleakala, the Old Broad watched the activity in the channel with a two-hundred-power celestial telescope and a pair of "big eyes" binoculars that looked like stereo bazookas on precision mounts that were anchored into a ton of concrete.
Christopher Moore
#96. Candy loved to shop and she couldn't seem to shop smiling. They'd gone out the front door of The Cookie Jar and into the next building over. There were party dresses on the mannequins in the windows, and Hannah has said they were going to buy something for her to wear to the party tomorrow night.
Joanne Fluke
#97. On the one hand, it was nice to have someone who was concerned about you. But on the other hand, you couldn't ever feel truly independent. Marriage was a trade-off. You gave up some things and you gained others.
Joanne Fluke
#98. It seemed that people could walk through life without causing a ripple, leading ordinary and uneventful lives. It was only after they'd been murdered that people took notice of them.
Joanne Fluke
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