Quotes for All
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. Gabe Paul
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke. Esa-Pekka Salonen
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. Drew Waters
I know there’s no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will scream out for this. That one speck of my soul will still exist and be left trapped and wanting. For … Read more
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating. Diablo Cody
The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass where they can be eaten by a cow. The ingested fluke then lays eggs in the cow gut. Eventually, the eggs exit the cow, and hungry snails eat the dung … Read more
Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke. Courtney Barnett
The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you’ve … Read more
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end. Charles C. Mann
My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, Oh, my. I was so mistaken. The world isn’t what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me … Read more