Fluked Quotes & Sayings

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room. — Edward Zigler

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz. — Richard Corliss

We are disclosing animals, wired for unburdening. It's what we do as a species. When I am being told, I listen, mindful of the honor, remembering all the while that the shore would be mistaken to believe that the waves lap up against him because he is so beautiful. — David Rakoff

I would not have thought it before, but now I think Her Majesty might actually have cause to be afraid of you, Princess. — Marissa Meyer

A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought — Jean Stubbs

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated. — Seth Shostak

I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo. — Katie Leclerc