Famous Quotes & Sayings

The G7 statement clarified Japan's problems --- the out-of-dated tax system (which deters the flow of capital into the stock market) and lack of support from monetary policy to encourage banks to write off their bad loans.

George Vecsey

The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.

The footage of the soldiers giving bottled water will go a long way to rectify those bad images that stem from Iraq and elsewhere.

The frustrating thing about it is the way we lost. It's bad enough to lose, but to lose like that ... we just seemed to be flat. I don't think we gave up a ton of chances, but we didn't create any down there. ... We didn't come with the urgency we needed.

The front nine -- we never really got it going today. I hit a really bad opening tee shot and couldn't get it going after that.

The FTC is reporting on the complaints that they've received, and it could be that more people know to report to the FTC when something bad happens to them.

Mark Turgeon

The four-way race has been fun. It says a lot about our league. There are no bad teams. Every game is hard and you can't take anything for granted. It's been a challenging year for everybody. You don't get a day off. You are constantly going from one battle to the next.

Jim Haslett

The fourth quarter was horrendous. That one drive in the fourth quarter was about as bad as I've seen.

The fundamentals of the U.S. economy are bad and have been bad for a long time.

Joe Flaherty

'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.

The countryside is incredibly boring. There's lots of shagging, lots of murders, lots of sarcasm, lots of treachery, and lots of bad cooking, but it's all hidden. You've got all the space and the flowers, but it's dull!

The course is still relentless if you hit a bad shot.

George Orwell

The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar boxes.

Elbert Hubbard

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

The market will move back and forth in the weeks ahead. There is bad geopolitical news at the same time we are looking at high inventories.

The market was subject to a very normal pause to refresh. Why not ? Bonds have been up big. The market had been up big. We were vulnerable to good news, bad news, no news. The underlying bull market remains very positive.

The market trend is bad and there is unlikely to be any large-scale buying until after investors see the Bank of Japan's economic outlook report at the end of April.

The market took in some unbelievably significant bad news this week and is comparatively holding in, which is certainly encouraging,

David Jordan

The markets will like (Greenberg) leaving, but I think there is a lot more involved in Spitzer's case than just getting rid of (him). I would think there's still more bad news for Marsh down the road.

The market started thinking that the data were just too bad to be true and this helped the dollar.

The market's set to hold around the 5,000 level at the moment, with the retail sector coming under more and more pressure and UK house prices looking like they might come lower. The banks' potential credit risks become higher, bad debt provisions become bigger.

The market's responding positively to the fact that earnings were not as bad as expected.

The market needs a catalyst right now with all this bad news weighing on it. It's up to earnings to turn the tide.

The market is very resilient. We're shaking off any kind of bad news.

The market is still susceptible to bad news. You can see that in today's trade. Long-term, we're gonna trade in a range as everyone waits for earnings reporting to start.

The market's getting to a point where it's ignoring the bad news.

The market sees as positive for financial shares to write off bad loans that will clean their balance sheets.

Mike Young

The market seems to be less prone to panic when there's an earnings warning. There's the idea out there that perhaps the bad news has already been discounted in the market.

Mike Young

The market seems to be less prone to panic when there's an earnings warning, ... There's the idea out there that perhaps the bad news has already been discounted in the market.

The market's direction hinges on the earnings news for now. Investors are becoming very sensitive to bad news.

The market's been really weak on what was a very bad day in terms of volume. That meant we accompanied international markets that were also very weak.

The meetings we have had have been held in such a bad spirit. There have been tempers and people walking out and shouting and banging on tables.

Robbie Fowler

The medial ligament was snapped, the cruciate ligament ruptured and the cartilage was torn. The doctors told me it was so bad that they couldn't guarantee anything, not even that I would play again.