Top 36 Quotes About Sponges
#1. Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity.
Sarah Colliver
#2. I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.
Ali Liebegott
#3. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges soaking up so much water.
Neil Leckman
#4. There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.
Will Cuppy
#5. Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Steven Wright
#6. Our minds and hearts are like dry sponges. What we focus on is what will soak in and saturate us. If it is something foolish, we will make foolish decisions. If it is wise, we will make wise decisions.
Lysa TerKeurst
#7. Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#8. A lot of the time writers are just sponges ... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
Marcus Mumford
#9. Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.
Gwen Ro
#10. Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.
Brian P. Cleary
#11. They say kids are like sponges because they observe everything. I guess that makes teens and adults like mops because they're just as copycatish as kids are. Personally, I am more like a rake, I leave behind more than I pick up!
David A. Santos
#12. Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
Steve Carell
#14. Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.
Diana Wynne Jones
#15. It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.
Elie Metchnikoff
#16. Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?
Stephen Hawking
#17. How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?
Steven Wright
#18. Exuding confidence can ooze onto everyone around you. But it's sticky and goo-like, so remember to periodically wipe yourself down. I use a squeegee, because I don't like squeezing sponges. The only time I like to squeeze is when hugging a person - or a tree.
Jarod Kintz
#19. The impressions we pick up as children, when our minds are still open to influence and as soft as damp sponges, are likely to stay with us the longest.
Ann Patchett
#20. And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever. Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.
Neil Pasricha
#21. Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity.
John Donne
#22. Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
Magnus Scheving
#23. We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.
Max Heindel
#24. Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.
Asa Don Brown
#25. 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
#26. As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary's blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.
Frances Mayes
#27. I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.
Tomi Ungerer
#30. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
Gore Vidal
#31. My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.
Michael Jordan
#32. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
Steven Spielberg
#33. Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.
Demetri Martin
#35. American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.
Jerry Colangelo
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