Sucked Quotations

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.

One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people's dreams.

No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by the government. It is being compiled on big server farms and it's being analyzed by different computer programs, looking for any hint that you and I are up to no good.

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out.

I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'

I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

I grew up with gang violence. They tried to suck me in, but I wouldn't do it. I kinda got sucked in for a while, but my grandma basically raised me, and her dying wish was for me to stop doing that. An hour later -- she told me that when she was in the hospital -- I got a call saying she had died. Her dying wish was for me to succeed. I'm the first person in my family to go to college.

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Some nights are like that, especially on the drive and kick. They sucked us in and knocked down threes. It's not too many nights in the league on the road where you have shooting games like that. So you have to tip your hat off to them for all of those threes.

Obviously we're bottom and not doing very well but we showed what we're made of today. Chelsea had a lot of possession, probably 70 per cent but we sucked it up at the back and I thought we did really well today.

None of this stuff is going to fly unless there is some sort of measure to protect the integrity of the network, ... There needs to be a limit on the number of simultaneous users and the amount of bandwidth being sucked up. Without these limitations, no sane network administrator would deploy streaming media because they're afraid of a crash.

Peter's essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. He's such a sweet boy.

I have buck teeth. I sucked my thumb until I was eleven, and then I went on to suck other things. I'm very insecure.

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

She's one of those kids that will always be in my heart. She is one of those players that made me as a coach want to come to practice every day and give her my very best. I told her, by the time the season was over, I was totally exhausted because I felt she had, in a good way, sucked everything out that I could give her as a person and as a player.

When things aren't going great for us we sucked it up and continued to push forward. That's what it's all about in this league. If things aren't going great for you on the floor, continue to be confident in yourself and keep forcing the issue. If we want to be a successful team on a night-to-night basis we have to drive to the basket, make plays for each other and make defensive stops.

This was a good match for Kyle. We knew it was going to be a tough one. Kyle gave up the takedown early but he wrestled tough after that. He's focused. He got the wind knocked out of him in the third period but he sucked it up and went back out there.

(GM and Ford) have now sucked up all of the available customers through year-end with their employee pricing scheme. And with gasoline, even though it has come down from its highs, at current prices people are sufficiently concerned about heating their homes and putting gas in their car that they're going to buy more sensibly, and they're not going to buy big sport utility vehicles.

Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.

Bush had already sucked up most of the establishment money in the party nationally by the Ames event and once the results were in, that well ran completely dry for Dole, Quayle and Alexander,

We sucked it up today. This is the ultimate.

We sucked on that field, ... It had nothing to do with where we live. We were just poor.

He'd been knocking me off-balance with his hips all night. I was ready for that, and when he shifted, I went between his legs and sucked him tight.

He (Craig) got caught weakening the gun laws. A lot of people here got sucked in and got upset.

L.A. is an intense industry town, and there's a side of it that's superficial, but I surround myself with the kind of people who don't let me get sucked into that.

Mass retailers don't know much about order fulfillment on a one-time basis, ... Nothing turns a consumer off more than when you get sucked in, you want the product, and they don't have it. Brick-and-mortar retailers need to figure out these issues, and they're starting to.

That aerosol, including the bacteria, could get sucked into a building's air conditioning system or could float down on the street in front of a building and be inhaled by someone passing by,

I saw a face I'd never seen before. Like someone had sucked the blood out and he was ready to die.

Paul's got about 15 games under his belt that he wasn't at full health. Paul's had to do it hurt, without all the weapons others might have had. He never said a word. He's always sucked it up and played.

I think sometimes the air gets sucked out of the room by something I've written. It's actually beyond silence.

Open Air Museum. Seen from a train, stopped / As by design, to bring us / Face to face with the flag of our true country: / Violet-yellow, black-violet, / Its heart sucked by slow fire / O my America / This then your desire?

I think the finish of that third quarter really sucked out some of the wind from us. It seemed like we were in control and then we had a couple of possessions toward the end which both led to turnovers. From that point on, the momentum swung their way and we lost control.

I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.

I think we just sucked it up a little bit and one thing led to another.

I think we're pretty good at it. I can remember a few times when the play-action has sucked up a safety.

I thought we sucked it up and played very, very hard. ... That has to be the model for us in terms of how to finish the game.

I thought we sucked it up pretty good.

Tim conceived the idea to discourage young people from getting sucked into anti-social welfare activities. The climb represents a mission of hope and true lesson in overcoming adversity.

Today was a big stepping stone for me, playing in the final group, first time ever on the PGA Tour, ... Even though I didn't come out on top, I still sucked it up and I played with a lot of heart.

You know, we take this thing day by day. I've been in four complexes in four weeks ... three hotels, now an apartment. But that has nothing to do with what we did on the field today -- we sucked on that field, if you want to know the truth.

The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

We gave up that bad one right before the half, and that one killed us pretty much. We weren't playing that bad. Defensively, we got sucked to the ball a couple times and didn't stay with people, and that's how they got the other two goals.

We have sucked up the world's capacity to do that.

We pushed it a little, but then they came right back and it sucked the air out of us.

We've been in four complexes in four weeks, I've been in three hotels, now an apartment. But that (performance) had nothing to do with where we live or what we do. We sucked on that field today.

We did come out with more enthusiasm and effort, ... But we hurt ourselves, and that sucked the wind right out of us.

We had no choice, we had to go to them early. That would have been the perfect night for (Downs). We asked a lot out of our 'pen, but they sucked it up.

We showed a lot of heart. We're really banged up. Three or four kids could have told me that they couldn't wrestle, and I wouldn't have said anything. But they sucked it up and wrestled knowing it was the Greensburg match.

We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and we kind of got sucked into that. We were forcing things. We need to do a better job of sticking to our stuff and doing what we want to do.

We were hoping we would not get sucked into that kind of a game, but it's much easier said than done, look, they've done it twice. Coach (Paul) Jeppesen is a solid coach who has been around, and he had those guys playing the way they needed to beat us.

When we went to the zone, we played well. I don't like to go to the zone, but we've been playing it and playing it fairly well. The one time we went to sleep and they came right up and hit a three. But, we sucked it up and caused some bad shots.

We started to get sucked under the barge. Luckily, a deck hand cut us loose and we popped out of the water like a cork.

The window busted, and the door got sucked out. I looked at my grandmother, and the walls were like Jell-O. The trailer was rocking back and forth. I jumped between the coffee table and couch, and I remember the trailer tipping.

You can never stop improving. We like to walk out of arenas with all of the air sucked out and all of the fans calling us names. We love that.

It was a Boeing 737 and it was doing an engine run up for a maintenance problem and a person was sucked into the engine.

The school board did a pretty good job of massaging the ballot language. They're deceivers and you get sucked in.

The way it tore the walls and roof out of the trailer, I'm sure it sucked me up into the wind. I'm really glad I was unconscious.

What can we expect from this latest crop of indie directors who have been sucked into the franchise factory? I'm especially curious about 'Star Wars,' which will feature an all-indie crew after J. J. Abrams finishes with 'Episode VII.'

to read the angles of receivers and how they're coming off the ball and what routes they're trying to give me and not get sucked up on the run. I'm still having trouble with that. I still get overanxious, and that is something I cannot do.

Boy , Moe, that team sure sucked last night. They just plain sucked! I've seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.

(Brad) came over and we watched the Army-Navy game on TV and he got sucked in a little bit. When you go there, your jaw just drops and he knew it was for him.

To be honest with you, I got sucked up on the play-action and I was just trying to recover. The ball just kind of hit me, so it wasn't as good as it looked.

Rather, at the time, it seemed that all Merchant Energy companies were sucked down by the Enron undertow.

We had some slippage. We were careless with the ball, our shot selection wasn't as great, but when the game was on the line, we got back and sucked it up.

Coach Johnson gave us a heck of a halftime speech. We just sucked it up decided not to quit.

I've never been part of such a thing. It's an unbelievable experience to go through six overtimes. Our guys were exhausted and sucked it up enough to get the win.

I've lived in L.A. for almost 15 years now, and I've gotten sucked in a little bit to that success game that's played out there, and I wasn't enjoying my work.

As I read these scripts, I get sucked in. It's like potato chips.

Back then a lot of operators came in deliberately for the short term, sucked a lot of money from people and then disappeared overnight. Those days are gone. We want a long-term future and long-term career for our staff. Are there some sharks out there? Yes, there are, but you'll find that in any industry.

A lot of kids come here from other towns, they want to be actors, and they get sucked into the whole Hollywood thing and having fun, then they're 27 before they settle down.

They sucked a little wind and it's my fault. I guess we didn't have them ready to play four quarters of football. That's what it takes, you can't just play three.

They shut us down in the second half, but we sucked it up and kept plugging. It means a lot to us to come here and beat Lancaster.

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Emily could dissipate and essentially be sucked up into Cindy. It could also be the other way around.

You showed your credentials by being able to talk about all this detail, but a lot of people - including Democrats - got sucked into it. They learned the lingo, but they forgot it had no relation to reality. It was like critics of 'The Three Stooges' debating the right way to squirt seltzer up your nose. They forgot that the whole thing was a little silly.

I kind of got sucked in, like the rest of the American public,

If we can convince millions of calm, mature motorists not to get sucked into encounters with angry drivers, many lives can be saved and injuries reduced.

If you don't breach the lagoon, you'll lose the run of fish. There are arguments both ways. If you breach it too early, the younger fish are going to die because they're not mature enough and will get sucked out into the ocean, but if there's a drought year, you're going to have to open it up during their spawning cycle so they can get into the river.

I'm really about to cry right now, but I can't because my neck hurts so much. I landed on my head and my neck. But I wasn't going to give up. I don't quit for anything. I just sucked it up and I won.

The baby was sucked right out of his arms and carried off.

That has nothing to do with what we did on that field today. We sucked on the field, if you want to know the truth. It has nothing to do with where we lived and has nothing to do with the situation. We were just poor.

Don't be sucked in if numbers come in better than expectations, ... There's nothing bullish about that.

Don't be sucked in if numbers come in better than expectations. There's nothing bullish about that.

I just hope that rationality returns to the marketplace because employee pricing sucked the life out of the auto industry for basically the rest of the year.

I just sucked it up, went down and made a steal.

In the third period, we did a much better job of not getting sucked in. We tried to pinch a lot in the first two periods. When we didn't get the puck, we were in trouble and gave up too many chances. I'm just very happy with the heart we showed in the third period.

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.

They beat us twice. They've played us really good. (Tonight), guys just sucked it up and got stops.

It was like opening the hatch on the space shuttle and feeling the life get sucked out of you.