Quotes tagged ‘Bad News’

“Bad news is: You cannot make people like, love, understand, validate, accept, or be nice to you. You can’t control them, either. Good news is: It doesn’t matter.”

— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com

“The problem today is deeper than revising individual pieces: Journalists must revise their entire code, and recalibrate the metrics for what constitutes 'the truth.'”

— Roger Sollenberger, pastemagazine.com

“[Rehearsing speaking to Simba] The good news is, we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped a warthog on her.”

— Flip Kobler, Cindy Marcus, Timon (voice), Nathan Lane, imdb.com

“James Bond: Are these pictures live? M: Unlike the American government, we prefer not to get our bad news from CNN.”

— Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein, Michael France, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, imdb.com

“This guy? He's nasty, tastes like fire, rubs people the wrong way. This guy here? Sweet, refreshing. But when these two get together, bad news. Kind of like you and me.”

— Sudz Sutherland, Sean Reycraft, Stefan Scaini, Jay, Mike Lobel, imdb.com

“[after the X-Force team was killed off accidentally in a series of mishaps] Good news and bad news. Bad news is the whole team is dead. The good news is I don't think anyone is gonna miss Shatterstar. He was a bit of a prick.”

— Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds, Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut (voice), Ryan Reynolds, imdb.com

“It seems that every time we meet, I have nothing but bad news.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Oracle, Gloria Foster, imdb.com

“What is bad news to one person might be good news to someone else. And sometimes, what seems like good news might actually be something full of sadness, misery, and grief.”

— Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, imdb.com

“It’s like zonking yourself out on morphine while the cancer painlessly devours you.”

— Tim Kreider, vox.com

“Bad news travels a great deal slower than good news.”

— Michael Hirst, Thorvard, Richard Ashton, imdb.com

“Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good evening’ and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“A man says to the doctor: 'What's the good news?' 'You've got 24 hours to live. He says: 'What's the bad news?' The doctor says: 'We should have told you yesterday.'”

— Peteburns80, reddit.com

“No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.”

— Lady Bird Johnson, amazon.com

“I've got good news and bad news... The bad news is, I've got no good news. But the good news is, I've got no bad news.”

— EdwardNotBrian, reddit.com

“If you turn off the news and actually socialize with people, you’ll notice how little hate there is out there.”

— just-shower-thoughts, just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com

“Bad news usually happens all at once, whereas good news usually happens slowly.”

— John Green, youtube.com

“We all know the experience of going about our daily lives and then BOOM out of nowhere, life-changing bad news.”

— John Green, youtube.com

“They only show us victories, never defeats. Who wants bad news? Possibly he's an actor.”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“She just seemed to take it, never gave anything off, not light, not heat.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com