Fluked Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

Enzo Ferrari

#5. You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

Cynthia Carroll

#6. There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#7. If you're single, then I'm single? What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?

Sophie Kinsella

#8. I was just following orders. The people elected me. But who elected the people?

Stephen King

#9. forgiveness helps people control their emotions so they maintain good judgment. They do not waste precious energy trapped in anger and hurt over things they can do nothing about. Forgiveness acknowledges we can't change the past. Forgiveness allows us not to stay stuck in the past.

Fred Luskin

#10. My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.

Mark Bradford

#11. We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

Orlando Rodriguez

#12. For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

David Oyelowo

#13. Because we're not what we eat. We're what we do, and what we sacrifice, and what we love. And if we choose right more often than we choose wrong, we become who we want to be.

Greg Van Eekhout