Samuel Ervin Beam

Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, 'Wouldn't that be cool if someday I were able to do this for a living?' But it was such a fluke, and it really all took me by surprise and I just held on for dear life. I really wasn't prepared. I really went into it naively with no experience.

American Musician

Greg Graffin

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.

Martin Rees

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.

British Scientist

Robin Williams

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 lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

American Comedian

Lizzy Caplan

In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.

American Actress

Seth Shostak

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

American Scientist

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.

American Novelist

Mirai Nagasu

I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.

American Athlete

Alex Chilton

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.

Willard Scott

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

American Entertainer

Emphasizes events or successes that happen by chance and are unexpected.

Unpredictable Luck

Used when success is not a result of one's abilities or efforts.

Not Skill-Related

Could be viewed negatively, as it can undermine someone's perceived effort or skill.

Often Downplayed

Most commonly used in nautical settings, referring to anchor parts.

Maritime Term

Flukes help anchors grip the ground, providing stability to vessels.

Anchor Stability

Used in construction and maritime context; unfamiliar in everyday conversation.

Technical Vocabulary

Relates specifically to the tails of aquatic mammals, most notably whales.

Animal Feature

Used to describe a distinctive body part in biology and animal studies.

Biology Reference

The appearance of a whale's fluke often indicates diving or specific behavior.

Movement Indicator

Refers to a type of parasitic worm affecting humans and animals.

Parasitic Worm

Commonly used in medical and veterinarian terminology.

Medical Context

 again you're near the top of the leaderboard not necessarily at the top this week it was just a couple of years ago that you won this whole thing how important is it for you to show that wasn't a fluke yeah it definitely wasn't a fluke I mean I think I put enough fish across a dock over the years even before that to prove that I'm an adequate fisherman and I can hang with these guys

Reel Talk Ep. 9 - Wicked...

 that was something I just didn't have last season was that offseason like for you Tyler I mean you really a you talked about being humbled last year you came in you were so so brash after having won the year before and have it go as poorly as it did what was it a fluke you know they call me first to worst I heard everything in the book I mean I got zou

Reel Talk Ep. 1: Opening...

 found evidence of precognitive powers in undergraduate students and this was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal and most of the people who read this just said okay well fair enough but I think that's a fluke that's a freak because I know that if I did a study where I found no evidence that undergraduate students had precognitive

What doctors don't know...

 a piece of research where he found evidence of precognitive powers in undergraduate students, and this was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal and most of the people who read this just said, "Okay, well, fair enough, but I think that's a fluke, that's a freak, because I know that if I did a study where I found no evidence

 this bump could have appeared by a statistical fluke. So back to the dark matter. If the LHC's proton beams have enough energy to produce it, that's probably an even rarer occurrence than the Higgs boson. So it takes quadrillions of collisions combined with theoretical models to even start to look.

Could we create dark...

 often times followed by adolescents and calves in the middle and then finally rounded out with adult males sitting at the bottom sound familiar to anyone with me now back to the hunt in addition to the whales flanking and driving others will periodically bite onto the tail flukes

Killer whale society PIPE...

 radioed me and said there was a whale off the harbor. So I came up to the harbor and sure enough, there was a whale and he dove and when he dove, I looked at his funny tail fluke because there were 2 notches in and I thought, that's odd.

A whale saved my life PIPE...

 Humans have been drawn to honeybees since early recorded history, mostly to harvest their honey, which is an amazing natural sweetener. I got drawn into the honeybee world completely by a fluke. I was 18 years old and bored,

Marla Spivak: Why bees...

 It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle. Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant,

Dangerous memes PIPE Dan...

 of the spent air from its lungs Wow the tail flukes are absolutely gigantic they're almost as broad across