Soaking Up Quotes

#1. She felt everything deeply,
soaking up the world like a sponge.
While slowly squeezing out her soul, leaving her drained.

Tina J. Richardson

#2. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.

Chris Priestley

#3. I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

Rob Sheffield

#4. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges soaking up so much water.

Neil Leckman

#5. Another day the ladybugs arrive. Thousands of them, soaking up the sun on the back door. It's an Indian summer day, warm, with temperatures in the upper sixties and plentiful sun.

Mary Kubica

#6. It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

Big Sean

#7. Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

Gary Clark Jr.

#8. Nothing quite delivers the full experience of being out there like floating around soaking up the warmth of the early morning rays with a brush in hand.

Cory Trepanier

#9. Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry.

Gillian Flynn

#10. Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.

Paul Pierce

#11. Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something so slight as a single vocal quaver or icy harpsichord interjection.

Geoffrey O'Brien

#12. Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.

Asa Don Brown

#13. When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

Abraham Verghese

#14. It was only a remote portion of his mind that heard and answered the girl. The rest of him was soaking up her beauty with the passionate thirst of a man who has drunk too long at a celibate well.

Irving Stone

#15. Revealing her secret to her friends had lightened her burden. She found herself better able to focus, and her mind became a dry sponge soaking up knowledge. Lieutenant Volf may have been a brittle

M.A. Larson

#16. The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

Norman Granz

#17. My suggestion for the young graduate is to go work for someone else and be a sponge, soaking up all the knowledge you can about the profession before heading out on your own.

Keith Granet

#18. He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.

Sidney Sheldon

#19. WE ALL THREE sat at the kitchen table in our raincoats, and Joel smashed tomatoes with a small rubber mallet. We had seen it on TV: a man with an untamed mustache and a mallet slaughtering vegetables, and people in clear plastic ponchos soaking up the mess, having the time of their lives.

Justin Torres

#20. My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

Robert M. Hensel

#22. Leila dreamt that her Soul was on fire. It was not a nightmare. Shannon was in the dream. Shannon was telling her to wake up. She woke up, burning as if she had a fever, nearly soaking wet with sweat. Kevin was asleep beside her.

H. Raven Rose

#23. Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

Josh Hutcherson

#24. The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.

Michael Hyatt

#25. I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.

Saoirse Ronan

#26. Soaking" seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to "soak in and soak up" His presence, "soak in and soak up" His love.

Linda Boone

#27. Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

C.S. Lewis

#28. When it comes to the creatures you love and the things you love and the life you love, what on earth could possibly be more important than soaking them up right now while you still have the opportunity?

Jen Sincero

#29. Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

Adrian Lyne

#30. I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.

Kami Garcia

#31. The band broke into a cover of "Hungry Like the Wolf." I smiled up at mine. He was sexy even in soaking wet blue jeans. "Dance with me.

Lisa Kessler

#32. The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up.
Amelia: You're soaking wet.
The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool.
Amelia: You said you were in the library.
The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

Steven Moffat

#33. The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;
the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.
The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,
Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks.

Elizabeth Jane Weston

#34. I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

Kanye West

#35. At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

Bruce Springsteen

#36. Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Ken Hill