But earning nothing with a name troupe is a whole lot better than earning nothing with a lesser troupe.
But "better than nothing" is saying a newspaper over your head is "better than nothing" when you're running through a hurricane.
Charitable organizations embrace incentives for taxpayers to make donations: while a dollar today is generally better than a dollar tomorrow, even a dollar tomorrow is better than nothing at all.
"We built a better mousetrap, nothing more, " Mr. Marsh told Beverage World in 1993.
The members of Mr. McCraney's cast reportedly refer to his production as "Hamlet, the Action Movie, " and that's pretty much what it is, except that the dialogue is a lot better and nothing blows up.
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That is a lot better than nothing, at least for nuclear fallout (for which the model was first developed): there the case for being safe not sorry is overwhelming, and once the fallout has fallen, a Geiger counter will tell you whether the model's forecasts of which places would be affected have turned out to be right.
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That party's leader, Paulo Portas, a former newspaper editor, is a good, populist speaker who likes nothing better than a spot of impromptu campaigning, turning up at some market to shake voters' hands.
Sometimes there's nothing better than doing nothing on a beach for a week.
But for the washed, who quite like shopping and safety, such space is a great deal better than nothing.
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Manufacturing production looked a little better, but nothing to write home about.
Instead they talk about how they are compelled to do what they do, because moving the needle even a fraction is better than doing nothing.
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But, the consequences of continued slow growth and high unemployment fall most heavily on the least skilled and those who lose their job or the opportunity for a better life, to say nothing of the broad middle class that has suffered a historic decline in median income during the past four years.
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The Brady Campaign, named after the former White House press secretary wounded in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, called the compromise a "good step forward, " while New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo described it as "better than nothing" but a sellout to the gun lobby.
And he believed in taking a break now and then, because, as he said, there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
It's important to have a few good conversation pieces sitting around the house, and nothing sounds better than explaining how you bought a haunted mirror off two random guys on eBay.
Barely mobile for a week, I had nothing better to do than bemoan my poor fate on Facebook.
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Sitting around lifting weights, sleeping or feeling depressed does nothing to resturn a better product than the one that went in.
That has led some greens to take the view that a nuclear revival is better than doing nothing much about climate change.
Westwood, who had nothing better than a 17th-place finish in 15 starts in America last year, started the final day eight adrift of Sabbatini.
And I was a snarky adolescent who liked nothing better than to sit in front of the TV on Saturday afternoons and make fun of him.
Jerry Amato says a smaller Mardi Gras is better than nothing at all, but Chucky Stevens says the city should have reconsidered hosting the country's biggest block party.
Besides, some Canadians love nothing better than a storm: every winter tourists flock to the beaches of Vancouver Island expressly to watch them lashing in across the Pacific.
This was partly because of the amount of static emanating from elsewhere particularly Toulouse and Seattle: his peers at Airbus and Boeing, Jean Pierson and Phil Condit, love nothing better than a good public scrap.
If a government recapitalisation does prove necessary, the treasury is likely to take one of two routes: a preferred-stock investment that allows the agencies to raise more capital of their own, or nationalisation through a common-equity injection that leaves current owners with nothing, and thus offers the taxpayer a better deal.
What had once been a company that employees were excited to be a part of became nothing more than a paycheck they would collect until something better came along.
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Someone who wins a million dollars in a lottery will be far better off than someone who wins nothing, but that does not mean buying lottery tickets is a good career move.
The point is: Why pay 20% when you can do better paying nothing and being a couch potato?
In fact, it adds little to a better understanding of the man and certainly nothing to what might have happened to him.
"There's nothing better than having a few rumours knocking about, " he said.
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