In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“I want to write an unreliable narrator. In fact, he’ll be so unreliable that I’m not even sure he’ll show up to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth –… — Henrik Svensmark Copy Share Image
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.” — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being… — Christopher Landsea Copy Share Image
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable. — Dorie Greenspan Copy Share Image
The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness. — James Kirkup Copy Share Image
Unreliable and inconsiderate people should stay as far away from me as humanly possible. I can't deal with it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.' Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
If you have continuously shown me that you are unreliable & sometimes, please don't get upset when I don't respond to your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
Ideas are unpredictable and unreliable. You need to grab them while you can, whenever they present themselves. — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.' 'I'm not always unreliable, Telorast.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The data which is used to date for making the conclusions and predictions on global warming are so rough and primitive, compared… — Gregory W Moore Copy Share Image
Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured. "Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no?… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image