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Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie.

William Shakespeare

Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps.

Garrison Keillor

See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll,/ Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!

Alexander Pope

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair.

Abraham Cowley

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called 'sucking up to the stars.'

Johnny Carson

We just came out a little flat. We've done that a few times this year. We can't do it anymore. We have some really tough games coming up and we just have to go out and get it done. We challenged the kids at the half to suck it up and go and they responded.

Chad Spence

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

Casey Affleck

Let's lead by example because the eyes are kind of on us. Instead of being negative toward it, let's suck it up. Show them we're above that, and let's bond around that.

Bill Rockwell

Once an economy starts to bottom out and grow slowly, it starts to suck into the real economy all of the capital which was driving up asset prices before.

David Roche

The $864 billion Republican tax cut is a destructive plan that will eat the surplus alive and suck the VA dry. They are trading veterans for votes and it is shameful.

Lane Evans

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.

Peter Woolley

I was kind of afraid like, `What if I'm not good any more? What if I need to be a cyclist to be a good skater? What if taking that element away meant I would suck at skating?' ... I was really unsure and frustrated.

Clara Hughes

We'll just have to suck it up. If you live here, you can't walk around with a mask on your face forever.

Mike Waters

That was a nervous moment for everybody, certainly. That's just the sort of individual he was. He could suck it up when he had to and get things done.

Jack Jones

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.

Chris Conger

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.

Jerry Doyle

Their bill is not sharp. They don't suck at all.

Fred Bassett

He choked up a little bit, but he tried to suck it up in front of us. You know Coach Williams, he's a real tough guy.

Travis Garrison

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Gena Prochaska

[Ryan Anderson, who described Dooley as his] steadfast best friend, ... Suck it up. Drive on.

Bryan Anderson

Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever.

Brian Wilson

This little set up is dynamite. Some college gigs you go to, they really suck.

Jimmy Dunn

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Joseph Rickaby

There are just certain times when you?ve got to suck it up and everyone has to contribute for the good of the community.

Jack Wolf

I just have to suck it up and play. This is my first year at Rose Hill after sitting out all of last year. I love playing with these girls.

Kala Faulkner

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.

Dean Haskell

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

Steve Bush

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.

Christopher Marlowe

You've got to suck it up. It shows you what our team's made of. This team has a lot of character. We're not going to give up.

Mike Redmond

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Curly Howard

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

Jon Bon Jovi

It was now or never. We had to suck it up, toughen up and buckle down on defense or we were going to lose. We just made up our minds that we weren't going to be the team that was disappointed tonight.

Isaiah Swann

It would suck for me to just be in the studio. We definitely want to tour, but two of us are married so its hard to tour just for the sake of touring. We want our music to heard. We want our songs to be known and for now we're playing locally trying to make that happen.

Romulo Costa

They'll see a figure like Princess Diana who many people feel great affection for and suck them in that way.

Michael Dunn

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.

Lou Pucci

They needed that time to reflect and focus on what they wanted out of the season. It could've gone either way. We weren't sure how the kids were going to bounce back. Were they going to tank it or suck it up and do better?

Audra Corson

He's got to suck it up. He's the best player in baseball and he's used to doing good. It's a shame, though. You can see how much this guy wants to win. Every time he gets to the ballpark it's all about baseball. These guys don't talk about anything else.

Luis Sojo

I just hope we haven't peaked. I still see room for improvement. We've been playing basically five kids and they could get tired this time of the year. But they just have to suck it up and get through it.

George Braun

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

Terry Carter

I didn't just want to sit and suck my thumb and write.

Nicholas Kristof

Difficulty logging in (and) servers going down--it's become a normal part of our lives. It really does suck for us because we're running higher-level (quests) where it takes us a few hours to get to the (goal) and sometimes the server suddenly goes down right near the end before we finish. And they are unannounced (and) you just see people on the server--guild list--start dropping off.

Joi Ito

I was sick all through the tournament. But I had to suck it up. I had to for the team. It's tournament time, the championship game. You've got to make everything happen.

Ceedrick Ware

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.

Hannah Rogers

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

Robert Edwards

Cities demand huge amounts of energy to run their infrastructure and fuel their transport, they suck in vast quantities of water, they demand large amounts of food.

Nick Nuttall

I just knew I had to pull through. It's my senior year and I had to suck it up. I have a chance to be in the finals and I'm going to take advantage of it.

Armando Gonzalez

With the injuries we have, the game was always going to be tougher than usual. But it's still early in the season and if we can suck it up and get past this difficult period, we should be OK at the end of the season.

Takeshi Okada

We just got to suck it up. Obviously, it gets harder and harder when guys are going down. Hopefully, we'll get some of the guys back pretty soon.

Sami Kapanen

Things might suck — the state of the world, music is dark, life is dreary — but you have to be the one who soldiers on and tries to keep people happy and bring hope.

Kori Gardner

It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.

Craig Armstrong

You have a large vortex spinning around, with a smaller one inside. The large vortex has a shearing effect on the smaller one, like cake batter being stirred. The large-scale vortex acts like a giant mixer, stretching and thinning out the smaller one, transferring its energy into the larger vortex. The large-scale vortex actually acts like a vampire, sucking the energy out of the smaller one.

Gregory Eyink

The first 6 inches suck. But once you get past the knees it's all right.

Jon Parson

Shoot for the moon, ... And you need to find a cure quickly for this scum-sucking pig of a disease because women rule the world.

Teri Garr

When you are dealing with public safety ... the existence of a middle man who is going to suck money out of the process by way of profits inevitably puts the public at risk.

Peter Kormos

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.

Justin Dombrowski

I basically told them it was the little things. It was time to suck it up and be the people, be the champions you want to be.

Tim Baumberger

The good thing is, the majority of [the Americans in Helsinki] were part of the 2002 world junior team with me. We hope it will get people interested in track. That's the plan -- to suck people in.

Lauryn Williams

Nobody was enjoying those types of conditions. It's just not fun playing baseball when it's 100 degrees out. It's just miserable. You have to suck it up. It shows what your team is made of when you play in tough conditions. Our team has a lot of character.

Mike Redmond

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.

Glenn Kaplan

I don't expect to see much from them that's going to suck.

Schelley Olhava

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

Greg Mclean

A lot of it depends on the circumstances and how big you are and how much air you suck.

Terry Farley

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.

Chris Kramer

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

Courtney Love

He's a really good quarterback. It really helps him when you can run the ball with the play action to suck in the safeties. What really killed us was Toledo converting 12 of 17 third-down plays. We had him stopped a few times but he scrambled and made big plays.

Bill Cubit

There are all kinds of suckers: soft suckers, hard, rapid and slow. When they suck hard, they get to hear a sound, and when they're aroused they suck hard.

Athena Vouloumanos

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

Joss Whedon

I would compare myself to the Vince Vaughn character, but I suck.

Justin Bitz

That game was so important to us that guys were down for a couple of days, ... Really, it was a big momentum-changer for us around here. But we've had to suck it up this week. We needed that game, and not playing well hurt us.

James Cook

He (Scott) would expect us to suck it up, be professional and get the job done.

Tom Killian

I wanted to be an announcer that spoke to the everyman. I did not want to be a golfer who held his abilities above the audience. I wanted to talk to them, not down to them. There are 30 million golfers out there and they all suck. So I'm just going to tell them how bad I am and how good these guys are and have fun with it.

Gary Mccord

There has been that common thought that because [offers of aid] are not tapped immediately, they're not prudently used. We are pulling everything into a centralized database. We are trying not to suck everything in all at once, whether we need it or not.

Natalie Rule

I really like the configuration we'll be using this weekend, ... It's very technical and there are a lot of high-speed sections where you've got to suck it up and get it done.

Mike Forest

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

Doug Jones

Had to teach them how to suck a crawfish.

Tar Heels

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.

Brett Sharman

When you're eating on the bone, it makes the experience last a little longer. You can suck a little more flavor from the bones after you eat the meat.

Grace Young

There's a correlation between a woman's bottom lip and her vagina. Sucking gently on her lip will make her vagina swell.

Dr Ava Cadell

We'll just suck it up, deal with it, turn the snowmakers back on and we'll be back in good shape.

Greg Sweetser

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

Mary Schmich

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

Julian Cope

He'd suck my brains, memorize my Rolodex and use my telephone to find some other guy who'd pay him twice the money.

Ned Dewey

It's going to be a lot like it was last year. They're going to come out and they're going to hit us a lot. They're going to play physical. Guys are going to have to take the punch after the whistle and suck it up.

Paul Cabana

She's so good at dealing with pain. This is somebody you don't have to say 'suck it up' to.

Anne Donovan

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.

Bruce Rubin

I see the kiosk network growing and sucking up a lot of the customers because we can get to the consumer now.

Peter Rowan

We will plug away. We just have to work with what we have and suck it up. Credit New Mexico for sticking to its game plan; they did what they had to win.

Barry Gorman

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.

Dale Poffenroth

Nature shows suck ass, though cobras are pretty sweet. Pretty much any animal that has a gang named after it is pretty bad ass. I would go for an animal combo, like a bear that carried a cobra -- total unstoppable force. Give that thing wings and humanity is f***ed.

Pete Wentz

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

Kevin Forbes

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.

Russell Carter

We see parasites literally suck the weight off cattle. It's almost always a money-making proposition to treat the animal, as the cost savings (from less weight loss) will be greater than the expense.

John Maas

What Mrs. McCullough says tears at our hearts — and it's felt by almost every family of a deployed soldier. These families have no choice but to suck it up. They love and miss their soldiers, and it's hard on them — especially the kids.

Peter Duffy

It is what it is. Coach is trying to give us rest during practice, but it's a new season and if you're tired or a little fatigued, you have to suck it up.

Calvin Cage

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

Chris Heagarty

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

Lisa Marie Presley

How To Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You: Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society ... sucking the vitality out of our lives, families and communities.

Claire Wolfe

[When asked about internal memos citing where Microsoft executives reportedly mentioned] sucking the air ... colorful language is no sign of evil intentions.

John Warden

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.

Patricia Anderson

I was a little down on myself. I felt I was a good high school player. I felt like I deserved a scholarship. But that's just how it was. I've had to work for everything. I just had to suck it up and keep working.

John Sharper

Were covered in hundreds of pounds of cow intestines, which they had to puncture with their mouths, suck out the liquid, fill a glass with it — then drink the juice.

Bernard Goldberg

If the water is turbulent, the mosquito larvae won't make it to the top to suck in air.

James Wright

Till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Tilda Swinton

You can either ride the wave or suck the surf.

Joe Caruso

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

Carl Guardino

Of course they're using it, ... It doesn't suck.

Eric Raymond

There's no excuses, really. We've just got to suck it up and play better. That's the way it is.

Eric Brewer

Gray whales feed by sucking mud into their mouths, spitting out the mud and catching amphipods and crustaceans in the process.

Emily Pratt

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Elsa Maxwell

I think celebrities suck.

Eddie Vedder