Quotes About Soak

#1. Asininity was puddling all around me in quantities too vast to soak up. - It Looked Different on the Model

Laurie Notaro

#2. I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Erin Morgenstern

#3. Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#4. Relax, I won't say it again for a while. I just want you to get used to the fact that one day, when you're comfortable with it, I'll tell you every day, multiple times a day. I want you to know how much I love you every single damn day, but for now, I'll just let you soak it in.

Kimberly Lauren

#5. Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.

Walter Isaacson

#6. If I wanted easy, I'd chain myself in hell beside Rixon. The two of us could kick back and soak up the rays together.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#7. Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

Eric Thomas

#8. I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Edward Norton

#9. Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.

Christoph Fischer

#10. I got bath water you could soak in, things I could do with lotion.

Drake

#11. To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller

#12. WHY IS MY BATH COLD? Because I, purchaser of sadist shoes, needed to soak after wearing cheese graters on my feet yesterday and then traveling and walking and sitting through meetings and touring facilities and impersonating a pack mule today. 'Twas not meant to be.

Qwen Salsbury

#13. Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

Violette Leduc

#14. Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.

Brandon Jennings

#15. Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

Amy Bloom

#16. As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

Christopher Buckley

#17. A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him.

Buck Brannaman

#18. Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

Robert Frost

#20. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Charles Spurgeon

#21. These days, they use so much pesticide that when I feed the children, I have to soak the vegetables for at least two hours.

Liu Cixin

#22. People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

James Baldwin

#23. You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Robert Duvall

#24. Situations are like that. They take up all the time you used to use for working and eating and sleeping. They soak up your whole life like a black hole in space soaks up the sunlight. And then, where you used to have a life, all you have left is a situation.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#25. Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.

Harold Schechter

#26. Like most sensitive souls, you already know you're sensitive. You soak up others' moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each colour it touches on a palette.

Victoria Erickson

#27. She begins to undress and I soak in every curve, every part of her that she sees as a flaw and I see as a revelation.

Sara Farizan

#28. Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.

Vir Das

#29. Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

Douglas Coupland

#30. I sat there, letting the idea of starting again soak in, finding beauty in the balance of life. We have ups and downs, and how we deal is up to us.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#31. I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

Behati Prinsloo

#32. Everyone fears him in their own way. And fear grows in the dirt of that town, soak the air, are engrained into the minds of every single person who resides there. That's how a place like that exists. Without fear, the society would crumble.

Jessica Sorensen

#33. I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Elizabeth Olsen

#34. Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Suzy Kassem

#35. My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Dustin Lynch

#36. She leaned into him to soak up his warmth.
"You are so hot," she said.
"It's about time you noticed," he teased.

C.C. Hunter

#37. Consciously soak in moments. Turn them into movies, into stills. Don't ever forget the seconds that make life soft and beautiful. Collect them. Review them in your dreams.

Unknown

#38. Sensory overload - I just want to soak myself completely to rid myself of
feeling too much

Tina J. Richardson

#39. [Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

William Safire

#40. There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

Dick Costolo

#41. Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Haruki Murakami

#42. I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

Bob Uecker

#43. The more we soak ourselves in God's Word, the more we will be able to readily lay hold of the wisdom we need for particular circumstances.

Lydia Brownback

#44. She liked to 'leave dishes to soak', an act of self-deception that I've always abhorred.

David Nicholls

#45. Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

Janine Di Giovanni

#46. God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.

Lysa TerKeurst

#47. ... she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

David Nicholls

#48. Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

Jim Rohn

#49. The fact that my skin color hadn't been an issue for those early years of schooling says everything about where racism originates: it is a cultural issue, a societal and familial problem that children soak up as they become more aware of the world. But

Maajid Nawaz

#50. It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.

Emem Uko

#51. There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love should be our priority because you can never get enough of this, people return again and again to swim in the river or soak in the son.

John Arnott

#52. Like raindrops, beautiful women were every-where. Like raindrops, only a few ever landed on you. They would either soak into your constitution or drip away into that puddle of other former love disasters drying out; dying in the Bangkok sun.
Red Night Zone - Bangkok City

James A. Newman

#53. We are going to soak this rock with blood! I am Uhtred! I am the lord here. This is my rock!

Bernard Cornwell

#54. I think cool moments like winning a Grammy deserve a nice little party where you really soak it in and not have to work and stuff. I do remember throwing a party on that Grammy night, but it was work.

Ciara

#55. Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,
Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine

Aleister Crowley

#56. I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

Jeff Ament

#57. As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.

Cory Trepanier

#58. Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Michael B. Jordan

#59. I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#60. Hunger for God's Word like food. Thirst for it like water. Soak in it like a jacuzzi. Put it on like a garment. Weave it into your soul so that it becomes part of the fabric of your life. When you do, you won't just be trudging up the trail. You will be dancing in the footlights.

Stormie O'martian

#61. When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.

Jeremy Camp

#62. Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

J. Paul Getty

#63. How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss.

Mark Haddon

#64. Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.

Owen Jones

#65. Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.

John Madden

#66. I think it can be incredibly powerful for a teen to be able to put their story out there for others to soak in, learn from, relate to. In some ways, it validates their experience, which for teens (or for anybody, really) is a pretty huge deal.

Deborah Reber

#67. Quilts need air and sunlight every week to keep them fresh and a long soak in summer.

Dorothy Adamek

#68. I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing' ... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

Laz Alonso

#69. We choose to vibrantly go about life, soak it up, embrace it, and celebrate it, or we choose not to. No one else can make this decision for us.

John O'Leary

#70. Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

Alfred Austin

#71. I'm not looking forward to a specific person per se; I'm just excited to meet everyone. I respect greatness and I'm just going to soak in anyone I meet.

Arian Foster

#72. In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

Paula Deen

#73. If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.

Teresa Bloomingdale

#74. Use words that soak up life.

Virginia Woolf

#75. I'll do the dishes." He replied, "Later."
Sin number one.
Everyone knew you cleaned the kitchen right away. If you didn't, the gunk would solidify on the plates and skillets and it would take ages to soak it away

Kristen Ashley

#76. Every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to act from the Divine Center of Silence and allow the glory of the Presence to soak our every movement.

Andrew Harvey

#77. Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?

Janis Ian

#78. I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Janet Flanner

#79. I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

Neal Shusterman

#80. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through, when I am dead and gone that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through.

Sue Monk Kidd

#81. It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges.

Nora Roberts

#82. Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.

Don DeLillo

#83. We treat the things that soak up energy and resources like they're valuable, and the things that generate them like they're disposable. We don't celebrate batteries. And I think that's wrong.

Molly Ostertag

#84. A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

Stefano Langone

#85. different. Warmer.' He paused to let that soak

Joe Haldeman

#86. If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself - maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.

Meia Geddes

#87. Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.

Lysa TerKeurst

#88. You need to march your doubt out into a field and put a .357 round in the back of its head. Let its death soak into the earth, grow the wheat, make bread from its blood. Because, for real, fuck doubt. Fuck doubt right in its wax-clogged ear.

Chuck Wendig

#89. To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set. I'm a box-set junkie! I absolutely love 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Jessica Ennis

#90. I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

Jack Kemp

#91. Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

Roma Downey

#92. It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely look at them.

Margaret George

#93. You never knew when a moment would be your last. So why not soak up every memory?

Rachel Van Dyken

#94. They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

John Steinbeck

#95. In the movie of life, nothing matters except our King and God. Don't let yourself forget. Soak it in and keep remembering that it is true. He is everything.

Francis Chan

#96. I usually get up around 6 A.M. It takes me a while to get going. In our household, I am the first one up. I usually make coffee for myself, draw a bath and have a big soak. I read in the bath.

Rick Bayless

#97. In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.

Neve McIntosh

#98. I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.

J. B. Smoove

#99. The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

Alice James

#100. If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

R.L. Stine