Quotes About Unreliable

I am very scatty, I don't follow things through, I forget things. I am not perfect.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable.

Unfortunately, most warning systems do not warn us that they can no longer warn us.)

The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.

he could do everything, but he did it in a brilliant offhand way, he was irresponsibility itself, nothing was durable.

After I squirmed into the snakepit of national politics, I realized that a ruler must equate the unpredictable with the unreliable. The future was too important to leave to whim.

She should have realized I was a bad luck person, she should never have thought I was someone to count on.

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

I wake up at night thinking about Euripides' 'Hecuba.' That to me is a story that says so much about what it is to be a human being in the middle of a world of unreliable things and people.

I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and disturbing read because it was the first time I really sensed that you could have an unreliable narrator, that you didn't have to sort of tell the truth in a narrative, that there could be something deeper and richer and more complicated going on.

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He made himself the only source. He would either not tell you, or he was often an unreliable narrator about his own life.

the world is full of slackers who only turn out when the weather suits them.

Because Explorers are so spontaneous, they can be unpredictable and unreliable. And their curiosity can override their sense of responsibility.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

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.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.

First there are Leaf People. These are the folks who are in my life only for a season. I can't depend on them or count on them because they have weaknesses of their own and are only able to offer shade. Like leaves, they take what they need and as soon as it gets cold, or a fierce wind blows, or the rain comes, they're gone. I am not angry with them; it's just who they are.

I don't trust him. You know, he's crazy. And when you're around him you're crazy too.