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  • First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

    Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Ambition   Play   Crafts  
  • The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

    Real   Men   Firsts  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Baseball   Jobs   Games  
  • 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.

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

    Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.706, Macmillan
  • I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  • 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.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Getting into television was a total fluke.

    "Sandra Bullock: 'Why I hate romantic comedies'" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2010.
  • As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Beautiful   Believe   Eye  
  • We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

    Beautiful   Taken   Cells  
    Wendy Mass (2010). “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life”, p.109, Hachette UK
  • 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.

  • How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

    Thinking   Events   World  
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.

    Nfl   Flukes  
  • 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.

    Boys   Years   Careers  
  • 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 (2004). “The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings”
  • We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  • 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.

  • If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

    Self   White   Black  
    "The Nature of Consciousness". Book by Alan Watts, 1960.
  • 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.

    Men   Skins   Flukes  
    Source: www.beliefnet.com
  • A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

    Sports   Golf   Clubs  
  • 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.

    Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
  • 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.

    Mistake   Parent   May  
    Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.20, Zondervan
  • The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

    "Light Years". Book by James Salter, 2011.
  • 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 Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2010.
  • James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he might have believed it to be the work of Providence but it seemed to him now that to thank God for his life would be to suggest God had shrugged off all the others flicked them away like cigarette butts by the thousands and that seemed like abominable conceit. James Dorsey took no credit for being alive. His higher power these days was Chance.

  • Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • You are not an accident. 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. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

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