Quotes About Flukes

#1. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes - an interesting side branch.

Bill Bryson

#2. Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.

Sun Tzu

#3. Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Amy Tan

#4. The bones cry for the blood of the white whale,
The fat flukes arch and whack about its ears,
The death-lance churns into the sanctuary, tears
The gun-blue swingle, heaving like a flail,
And hacks the coiling life out ...

Robert Lowell

#5. 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.

Paul Auster

#6. The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

Charles C. Mann

#7. Evolution across the universe was nothing but the endless proliferation of automatic, organized complexity, a vast arid Turing machine full of self-replicating machinery forever unaware of its own existence. And we - we were the flukes and the fossils. We

Peter Watts

#8. When in doubt about drinking from an unknown spring look for life. If the water is scummed with algae, crawling with worms, grubs, larvae, spiders and liver flukes, be reassured, drink hearty, you'll get nothing worse than dysentery. But if it appears innocent and pure, beware.

Edward Abbey

#9. History (that list
of ballooning wishes, flukes,
bent times, plunges and mistakes
clutched like parachutes)
is rolling itself up in your head
at one end unrolling at the other.

Margaret Atwood

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

Jim Lynch

#11. I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Alex Chilton

#12. I mean, I've - these other films were flukes. I don't know what I'm doing. I should just quit. What would I miss? I'd miss my house and I'd miss going to work. But I think the thing that I've realized I would miss most is probably similar to everybody, which is your friends.

Pete Docter

#13. Oh, well, spit in the ocean and see if it comes back.

Stephen King

#14. It was good to be where you belong... And best to do the things you can live with. Even if it killed you in the short run.

J.R. Ward

#15. That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

Scott Turow

#16. You should be the stupidest person... if you kill somebody and you don't know what to do with her/his... body.

Deyth Banger

#17. To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

BoA

#18. I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

Paul McCartney

#19. The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

#20. Her tears were not for public consumption, she used to say. (216)

Fadia Faqir

#21. Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#22. I want a little girl with your smile and your smarts. I want Christmases and birthdays and a chocolate Lab who wears an American flag bandana that you name after a political philosopher or something. We can even include him in the family campaign photos.

Chanel Cleeton

#23. Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.

Maxx Williams

#24. How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

Paul Auster

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

Gary Johnson

#26. This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#27. Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson

#28. We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

Michael Shermer

#29. Golden arrow? And what would we do with a golden arrow? Give it to Alan for a lute string? I could hang it around my neck on a chain, perhaps, and let it stab me in the ribs when I tried to sit.

Robin McKinley

#30. Five more seconds of weakness and then I get up. One, two. Three, four. Five.

Veronica Roth

#31. Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.

Sarah Michelle Gellar