We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.
We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.
Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.
I guess 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.
"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. "
First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.
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.
I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.
Ron Paul's revolution isn't a fluke. It's the future.
The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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.
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.
The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
Getting into television was a total fluke.
