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My predictions are notably inaccurate. -- Robert Caro
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. -- Douglas Adams
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate. -- Agnes Martin
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. -- Zadie Smith
All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs. -- John Walters
One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate. -- Vince McMahon
Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know. -- Herman Cain
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. -- Matt Taibbi
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. -- Frank Luntz
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. -- Joss Whedon
If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate. -- Eli Broad
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.' -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising. -- Leo Burnett
I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. -- Dan Abrams
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. -- Irving R. Kaufman
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. -- H. L. Mencken
I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion. -- Chris Smith
You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three. -- John Podhoretz
A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate. -- China Mieville
I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. -- Gloria Steinem
I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete. -- Taiye Selasi
From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with. -- Alicia Keys
While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate. -- Charles M. Blow
Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them. -- Howard Rheingold
Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill. -- Michael Azerrad
In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film. -- Alex Gibney
Opinions can't be inaccurate. -- Matthew Weiner
Reality is hopelessly inaccurate. -- Douglas Adams
My predictions are notably inaccurate -- Robert Caro
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent. -- Caspar Weinberger
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves. -- Francis Chan
A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies. -- Nelson DeMille
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. -- H. L. Mencken
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. -- Earnest Hooton
Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate. -- Alexa Chung
In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate. -- Douglas Adams
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations. -- J. D. Salinger
The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up. -- Scott Adams
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. -- Andre Maurois
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, -- William Strunk, Jr.
The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading. -- Colin Powell
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We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an appeal processes -- Bernard C. Parks
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it). -- Nora Ephron
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. -- Albert Einstein
Yes, there is a ton of information on the Web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile. -- John Updike
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. -- Plato
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. -- Agatha Christie
I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times. -- Zack Snyder
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be. -- Paul Samuelson
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As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches. -- Natalie
It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is. -- Fritz Kunkel
The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally. -- Paul Colaianni
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth. -- Alvin Toffler
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. -- Walter Scott
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. -- Irving R. Kaufman
Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information. -- Jay Leno
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with -- Benjamin Hoff
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In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living. -- Edwin Way Teale
... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both. -- Maria Edgeworth
Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system. -- Rosalie Maggio
Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk. -- Monique Truong
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate. -- Agnes Martin
Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying. -- Donald Rumsfeld
He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which--having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles--he found inaccurate and boring. -- Susan Cooper

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