Clear Eyed Analysis Quotes & Sayings

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers. In these times, when those of us who are members of the 'reality-based community' are under relentless attack from both the right and the left, we must encourage, and our work must reflect, independent and non-ideological thinking. — Tony Auth

Football is important, but it is never more important than life. — Nemanja Vidic

The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or people taking pictures of you eating a hamburger, I kind of have trouble even imaging it. — Rachelle Lefevre

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with. — Mick Taylor

I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons. — Chris Farley

The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don't know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis. — Paul Pearsall

I'm sorry I can't get into Scooby Doo on any level. — Mike Judge

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression. — Willis Regier

How did you fastforward and turn it off? (Danger)

I wanted it off and off it went. (Alexion)

Wow, that's amazing. I guess this makes me the luckiest woman in the world. (Danger)

How so? (Alexion)

I've found the only man alive who won't ever shout out, 'honey, where's the remote?' then tear my house apart in pursuit of it. (Danger) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back. — Greg Maddux

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life. — Thomas Mann