Sucking Quotations

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.

They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.

Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.

We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

World of Warcraft is completely owning the online game space right now. Look, Matrix Online is good, but it's like being in the early '90s and trying to put a fighting game up against Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter; it's just not going to happen. There are a lot of other online games that are just sucking wind right now because so many people are playing WOW.

We're glad to see that sales in Europe have turned around. McDonald's said nothing about Asia so that could mean that they're still sucking wind there.

Simply put, you put your gloves on and you've got the pipes, or as I call them, the sucking tubes, and it gets everything out.

Most people who describe the sucking feel that it soothes them, calms them, gives them comfort, focuses them.

Right now, everything is going wrong for me - if I fell in a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb!

I have been told on many occasions that slightly more sucking up would be a good idea. It's hard because it doesn't come naturally to me. When I tell somebody I think you're great, I really mean it.

I don't know about you, but I hear this big sucking sound coming from our budget, ... It's been a drain on our resources.

I didn't want to get into a transition game because they've been over 100 five times, but what I found out during the first half was that their big guys were sucking wind. We were able to take advantage of that and give us a little cushion, and I was surprised because I knew they wanted to play in the 90s if they could.

I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the life out of him.

He's been a trouper. He's been in pain, but he's sucking it up for the team. It's a great thing he's doing for us, and I appreciate it.

Just 'cuz you're bigger than me, just 'cuz you're smarter than me, just because you drive a better car than me, does not mean, no way no how, I'm sucking you off, for any amount of money.

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

I think one of the thoughts was that you have a situation that when babies are sucking they're probably not going into that deep sleep cycle that they may normally go into.

The air conditioner was causing a back draft, sucking the air down the flue of the heater and recirculating it through the house,

We end up sucking resources so the other communities are subsidizing our coverage. To some extent we lack that because we want cheap taxes.

With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili.

With the U.S. slowdown looking more real each day, the trade deficit may have passed its peak. The slowdown hadn't hit full force yet in October. U.S. consumers are still sucking in massive amounts of imports. The slowdown will be more clearly seen in November and December's figures. If imported goods start to pile up on retailers' shelves this holiday season, imports could drop off fast.

The problems with these high winds is not only is it sucking the moisture out of the fuel or the vegetation that's going to burn, but it also fanned the fire for a half a mile long and also got it into the trees causing safety problems for firefighters.

There are a lot of other online games that are just sucking wind right now because so many people are playing WOW.

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

Torin was sucking a lot of people in and that left openings for me. Once I saw the openings, I went in. If it was open, I wanted to take it.

While they're battling, we're sucking black sand and water.

What Forrester really needed was for them to make the declarative ruling and shut the door. It's sucking the air out of the room in the Forrester campaign.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

What the delinquencies tell us is that there are more people who are under financial stress. The rise in energy prices is sucking up much more of households' budgets than they ever did.

To be honest, I didn't want the it to get into a transition game. They had scored over 100 points five times, but what I found out was that a lot of their guys were sucking wind in the first half.

We are sucking out all the debris so in the next rain they can drain.

Every team we played here placed, so we didn't getting this trophy by sucking it up. I'm certainly not displeased with what the kids did. I'm happy with what they did. When you play good teams at this point you have to make everything work. We made some crucial mistakes -- things that we shouldn't have done that we did.

The seal between the mask and the face is critical for drug delivery. If the mask doesn't fit tightly enough, you're sucking in air from outside the mask that contains no medicine.

The team is playing well right now. I can't say enough about the performance they put in tonight. It was a hot and muggy night and it was tough moving around. After 20 minutes out there, I was sucking wind. I can't imagine what those guys were feeling out there throughout the whole game,

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

And the pain meds were not working, either. Chester was sitting in his basket, sucking on his back toes, and that's one of the ways I knew he was in pain.

A pump style dredge system, and they'll be sucking the sand off of near shore sand beds and pumping it directly onto the beach.

That's how you've got to practice. The message I had for them last night was be prepared for our tempo. They'll get used to that and I think players want that by and large and I think it'll pay off in the long run. But we've got a lot of work to do and a lot of guys sucking some air right now.

There's been very little investment in infrastructure at these companies over the past decade -- tech was sucking up all the capital, ... Demand is picking up and you have this big, new demand from China, which is pulling away supply that might otherwise have headed to the United States.

The more people you have in an area, the more straws you have sucking on a water supply, and it is scarce. The constant changes in the hydrology of the area - it's happening way too fast in the Gilroy/Hollister area.

It was discovered that she had a floppy larynx. Every time she breathed it was sucking the larynx back into her windpipe, blocking it. The next day she was back in surgery again.

It's not like the governor or a Senate candidate is sucking all the money up.

It's going to be like sucking on a tail pipe for about four hours, with the smog conditions and the altitude.

You think, 'Oh my God, here we go again.' But it's a credit to this team, to our character, to the people in this locker room who responded. We didn't let it get us down, we didn't fall into that hole -- because it was there. It was sucking us in. Guys fought their way out.

It was like a bad movie. Every restoration company in the Northwest is out here sucking up water.

It's really quite a layout. My oldest son, he loves history, and he's really sucking this stuff up.

I'm fully confident that I'll be able to play. It's really just an issue of getting as much treatment as possible over the course of the next couple days, really just sucking it up and dealing with the pain -- which isn't a big deal.

If you're just sucking eggs and it's not working out for you - then find something that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning, hit the floor running, and say, "Damn, this is going to be a great day." Because when you wake up in the morning, you're already ahead of the game.

If there was a giant sucking sound a few years ago, the sound is now a collective sigh of relief.

I have wetlands near me where we have lots of cypress and pine, and they are just getting choked out. A canopy of air potatoes is sucking the life out of those trees.

I just have to keep sucking it up. I'm not complaining at all, I realize that I do have to suck it up more. Even mentally, if I wear down a little bit, I still have to keep focus the last few minutes of the game. I have to keep the extra focus not to make a turnover or make a bad play, just stay solid throughout the whole game.

I don't think that's a bad habit; I think sucking your thumb is an OK habit, ... Somebody's bad habit could be smoking, that's kind of a bad habit because it's harmful to you. But thumb-sucking really can't hurt you, except for your dental plan.

The Colonies . . . are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother-Cities . . .

The idea is that people want a replacement for the smoking action. For those who don't like gum, sucking a glucose tablet gives you an energy lift.

A handful of pretzels here and there, sucking on hard candies throughout the day, or even just sampling as you make dinner can add up to more calories than you might think.

The condition of the US economy compared to the other industrialized economies around the world is clearly superior and we are sucking in an awful lot of capital from abroad and that is part of this advance it reflects how competitive our economy is. This rapid advance in the beginning of the year wasn't really expected by anybody and you can't expect it to continue at this pace. But until the economy gets knocked off dead center -- and I don't see that happening yet -- I think we will have a market that continues to have more up days than down days.