Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor…' — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art. — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee! — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The so-called sophisticated theologians, especially ones who are very nice, like Rowan Williams and Jonathan Sacks, you sometimes don't quite know where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days)… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There's things Calvin Johnson does that nobody else can do. He's obviously huge, his physical attributes outweigh just about everyone in the… — Nate Burleson Copy Share Image
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in… — Bob Cox Copy Share Image
Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on. At first, I drew a few natural sponges - amorphous shapes,… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our… — Bono Copy Share Image
And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
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… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
I love to surround myself with people who are the best at what they do. My idea is I want to be… — Kreesha Turner Copy Share Image
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“...Mind you, if we we're talking about regeneration, we could go a step further and take a leaf out of the sponge… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
