Quotes of Fluke - somelinesforyou

“ The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. ”

- Michael Ondaatje

“ There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking. ”

- David Coleman

“ Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ”

- Ian Fleming

“ Of moving accidents by flood and field. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I don't believe in coincidence. ”

- Juliette Binoche

“ There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. ”

- Rex Stout

“ Luck can only get you so far. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ Art? the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence. ”

- Unknown

“ Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence. ”

- Unknown

“ When it comes to luck you make your own. ”

- Bruce Springsteen

“ 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

“ Chapter of accidents. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. ”

- Chuck Knox

“ Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ”

- Marsha Norman

“ Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. ”

- Don Marquis

“ The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. ”

- Nathaniel Borenstein

“ When you analyze admirable lives, you find they are made up of minor details, of dabbling, of experiments, of people who look back and see they were preparing themselves for careers they didn't even know they wanted. Along the way they experience so many flukes and coincidences that you can only conclude that those who experiment put themselves in the path of happenstance, watched over by the angels of coincidence. ”

- Dale Dauten
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