#unreliable

You just tell me when and where, and not only will I not be there, but I’ll also be late. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #late #stood-up #tardy

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ↗

— Evan Esar

#definition #facts #figures #producing #reliable

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#i #i tried #slippery #tell #these

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#battle #body #her #love #though

... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors—for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame—that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them... ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#memories #memory #unreliable-narrator #faith

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

#bent #bunch #country #democrats #especially

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

#audience #because #between #chemistry #often

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

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

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

— Paul Theroux

#being #gain #modest #never #reputation

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

#any #because #being #fleeting #founded