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They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured."Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to.""Are you sure?""She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now~? -- Joe Abercrombie
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. -- Evan Esar
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator. -- Maria Semple
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. -- Paul Theroux
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. -- Lillian Hellman
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. -- Leonard Cohen
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' -- Charles Palliser
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. -- Walt Mossberg
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. -- Charles Stanley
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. -- Gene Tierney
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. -- Nick Cave
The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to. -- Rebecca Solnit
When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas. -- Jeffrey Kluger
In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors. -- James Gleick
While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine. -- Lou Ferrigno
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight. -- Paul Bloom
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy. -- Marcel Duchamp
We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them. -- Colin Angle
But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.' -- Ari Fleischer
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. -- Sonia Sotomayor
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. -- David Leavitt
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.' -- Ray Comfort
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls. -- Sebastian Coe
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real. -- William Gibson
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. -- Chris French
First impressions are always unreliable. -- Franz Kafka
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady. -- Guy de Maupassant
My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ. -- Vladimir Nabokov
An untested faith is an unreliable faith. -- Kay Warren
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend. -- Edward de Bono
The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies. -- Brian Spellman
Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable. -- Ariel Garten
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source. -- Will Rogers
The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships. -- Jack Ma
Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable. -- T. B. Joshua
Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth. -- Joyce Meyer
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good. -- Karl Kraus
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. -- Carl Sagan
Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it. -- Noormohammad Bhuayan
Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect. -- Janusz Korczak
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable. -- Ann-Marie MacDonald
Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable. -- John Robbins
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People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. -- Leonora Carrington
The human mind is the most unreliable things in the universe. So control it. -- Noormohammad Bhuayan
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We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are. -- Joyce Meyer
Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable. -- Dorie Greenspan
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. -- J. D. Salinger
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor. -- Terry Pratchett
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another. -- Karl Kraus
The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness. -- James Kirkup
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable. -- Charles Palliser
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. -- Josh McDowell
I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him. -- Edward Bernds
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. -- Helen Hanson
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem. -- Terry Pratchett
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth. -- Peter Boghossian
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? -- Sigmund Freud
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. -- John Derbyshire
There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face. -- Marjorie Benton Cooke
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. -- Nikki Giovanni
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend. -- Idries Shah
The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. -- Gertrude Stein
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings. -- Robert Walser
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future... -- Bill Gates
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. -- Anna Funder
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable. -- Dalai Lama
Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality? -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain. -- John Mortimer
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. -- Criss Jami
People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all. -- Nido R Qubein
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them. -- P.D. Ouspensky
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior. -- Jakob Nielsen
Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable. -- Richard Jeni
Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident. -- Rachel Caine
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not. -- Simon Blackburn
Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality. -- T.A. Barron
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word. -- Gilbert Ryle
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like. -- Norman Lock
Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable. -- Hilary Kornblith
Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway. -- Dean Koontz
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters. -- Anne Fadiman
You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess. -- H. G. Wells
I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that. -- Rob Roberge
Just because Rachel [from the Girl On The Train] is an unreliable character doesn't mean she has sex with anybody who walks by her. It was important to keep her a little virginal. -- Erin Cressida Wilson
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. -- Charlton Heston
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming. -- Christopher Landsea
You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive. -- K.H. Rennie
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things. -- Martin Buber

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