Fluked It Quotes

#1. The curious hunter-up of rare quotations ... the young and struggling scribbler ...

William Francis Henry King

#2. What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

James Madison

#3. the little steel retaining pin that locks down the

Konrad R.K. Ludwig

#4. The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Boris Trajkovski

#5. When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.
While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

Seth Shostak

#7. As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.

Konrad Adenauer

#8. I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.

Richard Corliss

#9. I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

Gore Vidal

#10. I mostly want to be friends with my children.

Vanessa Paradis