Elon Musk

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

South African Businessman

Harry Styles

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

English Musician

Zach Anner

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

American Comedian

Robert Kraft

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.

American Businessman

George Osborne

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.

British Politician

Natasia Demetriou

I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.

English Comedian

Alexa Chung

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

English Journalist

Analeigh Tipton

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

American Actress

Tito Ortiz

Negativity just sucks the life out of somebody.

American Athlete

Melissa Auf der Maur

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

Canadian Musician

Used literally when physically drawing something into the mouth.

Literal Action

While often used for liquids, it can refer to solids too.

Not Always Liquid

This use carries no positive or negative connotation by itself.

Neutral Tone

Focuses on the experience of taste or soothing sensation in the mouth.

Oral Sensation

It suggests a longer duration, not a quick action.

Continuous Action

Emphasizes the power of the force doing the sucking.

Forceful Pulling

Related to creating a vacuum or a reduction in air pressure.

Suction Effect

In casual speech, it expresses dissatisfaction or criticism.

Colloquial Critique

More common among young people and in informal settings.

Younger Speakers

It can show stronger feelings than just disappointment.

Negative Emotion

 to build a future that's worth getting excited about. The last time you spoke at TED, you said that that was really just a big driver. You know, you can talk about lots of other reasons to do the work you're doing, but fundamentally, you want to think about the future and not think that it sucks.

Elon Musk: A future...

 Okay, fine. So, I'm not Batman. I'm just a bat. But like Batman, I'm often misunderstood. People think I'm scary, strange and dangerous. If they only knew my story, though, I'd be cheered as a hero. When people think of bats, many think of vampires who want to suck their blood.

The truth about bats -...

 and over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own. There are actually thousands of species of mosquitos in the world, but they all share one insidious they suck blood, and they're really, really good at sucking blood. Here's how they do it.

The loathsome, lethal...

 like a plant, an alien civilization built one that actively sucked the energy out of the star like a hummingbird. Frighteningly enough, we've observed super dense celestial bodies about the size of a planet that drain energy out of a much bigger star.

Is there a limit to...

 hikiko mean hikikomori now spend their entire life in their room they never leave their room it says up here when life sucks might as well just stay in your room and live life there so what's the next we have to refined masculinity

The Demise of Guys PIPE...

 dawn you're in the deepest sleep you'll be an all night and the bedbugs are ready to strike bedbugs once lived in caves and sucked the blood of bats and your prehistoric ancestors when we left our caves so did they they sneak in

Bed Bugs PIPE National...

 ocean mostly in the deep ocean and it's incredibly beautiful and they live like by burying their roots into the bones using acid to dissolve the bone and then sucking out the collagen so when you're naming a species there

The Astronaut of the...

 in age during all those years its leaves were sucking carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in this enormous trunk this highlights the importance of the

What’s in the Trunk?...

 So, how about writing fiction? How do you suck your readers into your stories? With an exciting plot? Maybe. Fascinating characters? Probably.

How to write descriptivel...

 help suck up food the edible bets are groaned up on tiny teeth at the back of the mouth while the rest is spat out the

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