Quotes About Unreliable

Failure to converge. Confidence limits exceeded. Further predictions unreliable.

'Pi' was one of my favorite films growing up because I thought it employed paranoia and voice-over, and also because it used this unreliable narrator in a very fascinating way.

The childhood of our parents is forever inscrutable, the cave within the cave of our own. The light's too dim, the dancing shadows unreliable, fundamentally unstable, even the impromptu photographs and private letters somehow contrived.

All of this begs the questions as to why psychologists are wasting so much valuable training time on arcane, unproductive, invalid, unreliable, and inaccurate courses.

Why is torture the worst interrogation method? Produces unreliable information Negative world opinion Subject to war crimes trials Used as a tool for compliance

I have no memory of him talking,' said the man, 'but I am very unreliable.

secondary accounts are viewed by historians as examples of 'generation loss' and the unreliability of oral tradition. The farther you are from the primary source, the harder it gets to be certain the details are one hundred percent accurate.

The woman's at a certain time of life—craving for sensation, unbalanced, unreliable—might say anything. They do, you know!

Of all the species that god created, man is the most fragile and certainly uncertain and unreliable, believe me!

Hay en el alma un deseo de no pensar. De estar quieto. Emparejado con éste, un deseo de ser estricto, sí, y riguroso. Pero el alma también es una afable hija de puta no siempre de fiar.

He had the sourdough smell of age. His chest sagged into shrivelled teats; his lovemaking was unreliable, yet she found it strangely wholesome in a way that defied sense.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

Even the apparently unreliable narrator is more often than not reliably unreliable. Think of Kazuo Ishiguro's butler in The Remains of the Day, or of Bertie Wooster, or even of Humbert Humbert. We know that the narrator is being unreliable because the author is alerting us, through reliable manipulation, to that narrator's unreliability. A process of authorial flagging is going on; the novel teaches us how to read its narrator. Unreliably

This is merely another definition of dramatic irony: to see through a character's eyes while being encouraged to see more than the character can see (an unreliability identical to the unreliable first-person narrator's). 11

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

Now, the Oracles are finicky and unpredictable

But I've also come to see our respect for overwork as, perhaps a bit paradoxically, intellectually lazy. Measuring time is literally the easiest way to assess someone's dedication and productivity, but it's also very unreliable.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. 

False as dicers' oaths.

less reliable than Dennis Rodman.