Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well,… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Now (obviously) a sentence’s truth—even when we hold the sentence’s meaning fixed—depends on which world we are considering. “Brown is Prime Minister”… — William G. Lycan Copy Share Image
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“[Author's Notes] As I write this, September 2002, much about the humpback song is still unknown. (Although scientists do know that it… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who… — Eve Plumb Copy Share Image
“[Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really. ("Would you like fries with… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.” — Ken Norris Copy Share Image
“She glanced over her shoulder to look at the forty-foot cabin cruiser where Captain Tarwater posed on the bow looking like an… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“From the slope of Haleakala, the Old Broad watched the activity in the channel with a two-hundred-power celestial telescope and a pair… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“The next day the weather was blown out, with whitecaps frosting the entire channel across to Lanai and the coconut palms whipping… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable,… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
“[Acknowledgments] I recommend them all for further reading, but when you're finished, you may have to read several of my books and… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit,… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image