Top 100 Sponge Quotes
#1. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
Czeslaw Milosz
#2. Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#3. Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.
Richard Dawkins
#4. I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.
Win Butler
#5. This layers, like some kind of transparent sponge kind of thing, stands there between Eri Asai and me, and the words that come out of my mouth have to pass through it, and when that happens, the sponge sucks almost all the nutrients right out of them.
Haruki Murakami
#6. You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.
Jimmy Smits
#7. There was a moment's suspense while Conscience and Sheer Wickedness fought the matter out inside him, and then Conscience, which had started on the encounter without enthusiasm, being obviously flabby and out of condition, threw up the sponge.
P.G. Wodehouse
#8. She felt everything deeply,
soaking up the world like a sponge.
While slowly squeezing out her soul, leaving her drained.
Tina J. Richardson
#9. Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#10. It's a sponge and I'm a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don't just have square pants, everything about me is squarish because I'm part of a wall.
Karen Marie Moning
#11. When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream ...
William Butler Yeats
#12. No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#13. I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
Jodie Whittaker
#14. In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am.
Ernest Hemingway,
#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 country is like a great sponge - it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.
Katharine Hepburn
#17. Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#18. A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
Itzhak Perlman
#19. 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
#21. There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
Bono
#22. I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Anna Chancellor
#23. She had been half willing to sponge out what she had seen and heard, creep back to New York, and make him a memory. A memory of the three of them, Atticus, Jem, and her, when things were uncomplicated and people did not lie.
Harper Lee
#24. I felt unclean after having only one sponge bath since the delivery.
Justin Bog
#25. There are many ways of inducing sleep
the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.
Laurence Sterne
#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. 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
#28. I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.
Tomi Ungerer
#29. Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Jim Rohn
#30. Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.
Midnight Taylor
#31. Am I insane? I ask limply, and all feelings have fled my body. I'm numb. I'm a piece of wood. I'm a sponge, and I have no feelings, and I've absorbed all of this insanity for so long that now I'm insane myself. That's the only possible answer.
Courtney Cole
#32. Something inside me squeezes up tight like a sponge that is being wrung out
Anita Shreve
#33. God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was a sponge for the wrongs other people did.
Tom Franklin
#35. Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
George Sand
#36. At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.
David Blunkett
#38. One more thing."
"What."
"I think we're dating now." As V barked out a laugh, the cop shrugged. "Come on ... I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started about the sponge bath afterward."
"Fucker."
"To the end.
J.R. Ward
#39. 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
#40. If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.
Douglas Carter Beane
#41. When I get too old to write, give me chocolate covered sponge toffee and a glass Anisovaya vodka. Sit me beside the Atlantic and let me watch the Milky Way rise over the starlit ocean. I won't be any trouble.
S.E. Lund
#42. I have always been homosexual and it surprises me that more people are not; women's pink bits are moist and forbidding and I enjoy those qualities much more in a Victoria sponge.
Robert Clark
#43. Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus
#44. An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.
Ben Ames Williams
#45. He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.
Sidney Sheldon
#46. You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
Feist
#48. Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
Henry Ward Beecher
#49. If the sponge (mirror) neurons are our receiver, then our subcortical areas are the amplifier. These subcortical shifts are what changes in us when we attune to someone else.
Daniel J. Siegel
#50. This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.
Jimmy Fallon
#52. His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
Hippolyte Taine
#53. No, I don't work here, I'm taking pictures of messy bathrooms for a photo essay on the American West. But I'm always up for clean, so if you want to pitch in, I've got Pine Sol and a sponge in my car ... It's that VW microbus parked next to the dumpster, and you don't need a key, just pull hard.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#54. I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.
James Wolpert
#55. Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
Yo-Yo Ma
#56. I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
Thomas A. Edison
#57. It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.
Quentin Tarantino
#58. Did I mention how cute you look in my clothes?"
Blushing I just look at what I'm wearing and laugh.
"Chicks Dig me? And Sponge Bob boxers?"
"Chicks do dig me! And Sponge Bob is a great cartoon in your world.
Sara Daniell
#60. Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus
#61. I have a cheese-shredder at home, which is its positive name. They don't call it by its negative name, which is sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, but now I have little bits of sponge that would melt easily over tortilla chips.
Mitch Hedberg
#62. I have outlived the stillborn. I have outlasted my usefulness. I have become an abysmal ocean sponge, ten millennia old, and just as wise.
Logan Ryan Smith
#63. The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.
Robert M. Hensel
#64. This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#65. 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
#66. We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
Paulo Coelho
#67. Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.
Mark Parker
#68. [I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.
Usher
#69. 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
#70. The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#71. The next morning, shortly after sunrise, the Reb was awakened for a sponge bath. It was quiet and early. The nurse bathed him gently, and he was singing and humming to her, alive with the day. Then his head slumped and his music stopped forever.
Mitch Albom
#72. I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
Lee Trevino
#73. We choose our response--rock or sponge? Resist or receive?
Max Lucado
#74. I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.
Andrew Wylie
#75. [On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ...
Mary Mapes Dodge
#76. I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.
Scott Tolzien
#77. Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Harry Houdini
#78. 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
#79. I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner
#80. I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.
Lake Bell
#81. So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
Alexander Eliot
#82. She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees. (Esse)
Czeslaw Milosz
#83. I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.
Rashida Jones
#84. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
Gore Vidal
#85. I love his penis. I want to give it a sponge bath and dress it up like a super hero.
Anonymous
#86. My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.
Michael Jordan
#87. If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.
Kelly Corrigan
#88. I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.
Tim Vine
#89. I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
April Bloomfield
#90. I didn't have years. But I am a quick learner and was in human-sponge mode. I demonstrated.
Graeme Simsion
#91. 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
#92. You really don't understand the first thing about writing ... for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.
Cornelia Funke
#93. 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
#94. Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.
Herman Melville
#95. Let me know when you're done with this conversation. Peter needs his tongue bath. I mean sponge bath.
Dani Alexander
#96. I think we're dating now" "Come on ... I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started on the sponge bath afterward.
J.R. Ward
#97. They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.
Roald Dahl
#98. They drove past buses that dripped people the way a sponge drips water, and arrived at a thick forest of human beings, a crowd of people sprouting in all directions like leaves on jungle trees.
Salman Rushdie
#99. I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!
Rodney Dangerfield
