Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles C. Mann

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

Diablo Cody

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.

Bonnie Raitt

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

Alex Chilton

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.

Althea Gibson

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

Amy Tan

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.

Kelly Lynch

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

Robert Harris

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Gary Johnson

Ron Paul's revolution isn't a fluke. It's the future.

William Shakespeare

Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Alan Jackson

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

Alan Jackson

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

Alan Bishop

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

Alan Brien

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Alain Robert

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

Alan Arkin

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.