Famous Quotes & Sayings

The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are with making the story public, the more they show that the SAP product line is a reasonable option as well.

The good news is that if so many people are entering the labor force it must mean that they are perceiving an improvement in the economy's prospects, ... The bad news, however, is that if too many people become optimistic about their job prospects, then the unemployment rate will continue to push higher. And the higher unemployment rate does have a damaging impact on consumers. They see it and they think, 'I shouldn't be spending money.' That's one of reason the unemployment rate is so important. It's the one that drives what happens on main street.

Phil Gramm

The good news is that Congress has repealed the death tax, the bad news is the president says he's going to veto it, ... But the good news is Bill Clinton is not going to be president next year.

The good news is people are living longer, and the bad news is people are living longer.

The good news is most are obeying the law. The bad news is there are too many out there still selling to underage people.

Mark Calcavecchia

The good news is I hung in there and only shot 2 over without making any birdies but the bad news is I was in a position to go nine or 10 under and put some space in between me and the rest of the guys,

The good news is he's sobering up. I told him he's going to have a bad hangover.

Rick Carlisle

The good news is he is feeling better; the bad news is he's not ready to get on a plane and come out here and play.

The good news for these referral services is that they are the dominant show on the Web, compared to AutoNationDirect.com and other dealer sites. The bad news is that with so much competition, they match each other feature-for-feature, and it's very hard to see any profits for them any time soon.

Adam Brown

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

Andy Kindler

I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'

Angela Bassett

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

Paul Kariya

We've been pretty good. We've had some good games and some bad games, but we've started to play well and see each other out there.

We've been playing well for so long, we were bound to have a bad day. This should light a fire under us again. The kids realize that the status quo isn't good enough. We are going to have to get better.

We've been playing very nicely, even though we bowled very badly at the death and did some silly things with the bat in Cape Town.

We've been outscored pretty badly and just in general our play, particularly in home games, was the biggest concern for me.

Bill Self

We've been on a pretty good roll and certainly played a bad game tonight. Texas didn't become a bad team after Duke (a 31-point setback December 10) and we didn't become a bad team after these 40 minutes. We certainly aren't going to dwell on that.

Jan Egeland

We're in a bad year. There have been more international disasters than usual. All the wars are continuing. The Pakistan situation will have an effect elsewhere.

We're in a bad rut, there's no doubt about that. This isn't the way we've played offense the last couple years.

We're in a bad-news cycle now where bad news builds on itself. Bush's press has gone from bad to worse, from critical to adversarial. The media opposition has gone from passive to active.

We're in a bad crunch right now. We are totally jammed on immigrant visas, the green card category, and totally jammed on H-1B visas. You can't bring in tech workers right now.

We seem to have that one bad inning -- going into the fourth, we were only down three. We seem to have that one bad inning that causes to lose a ball game.

Chris Turner

Were there to be good news from ISM or indeed good news from (U.S.) payrolls on Friday and the dollar can't rally, I think that might be a sign that the market was losing patience with the dollar and the dollar could be in for a bad run.

We're the guinea pig, which we're happy to do. I've got to believe the players are going to love this. You'd like to have a situation where you're not going to lose a tennis match because of a bad call.

We've been looking at the good and the bad and just praying about it, looking at all options. It's a big decision, not just for me, but for my whole family. It's going to be a big relief.

We've been beaten up pretty bad by the record business. We've learned a lot of hard lessons. We were just kids in our early 20s when we had all this success. We weren't around long enough to know how to handle it, we just wanted to go out and play music.

We've been bad offensively all season. We're just continuing the trend. It's nothing new.

We've been a team that has ebbed and flowed all year. When we're good, we're going, but when we're bad (we're not). We haven't gotten a voice to shake us out of it. We've got people trying to play us out of it, but we're missing a voice. We've just got to go to work Sunday, settle down and say 'ok, we've got this' and hope for a better end to the weekend.

Tim Duncan

We need to get some of that funk out. We've had some bad games and some losses at home.

Tim Duncan

We need to get some of that funk out. We have had some bad games, some losses at home and we got a very good team coming into our house tomorrow (Utah) and we're going to have to gear up and get that win.

We need to force some bad shots and hold them to one shot. We haven't won too many games when we lose the rebounding battle.

April Bloomfield

I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.

The government's proposal does not change the fact that breaking Microsoft up will be bad for consumers, bad for the high-tech industry and bad for the economy.