Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while. — Brian P. Cleary 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
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. — Martha Stewart 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
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges? — Stephen Hawking 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
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
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… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around… — Ira Sachs 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
... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and… — Karen Tayleur Copy Share Image
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
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 not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an… — Thomas A. Edison 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
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
Most sponges in the ocean are sedentary: They attach themselves to a rock and sit and filter-feed the rest of their lives… — Stephen Hillenburg 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
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton 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
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A multitude of harlequin lifeforms bobbed and twirled and played in the depths of the Atlantic. Pink cucumbers with thorny backs. Algae.… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a… — Scott Bedbury Copy Share Image
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
![“I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/706/stephen-jay-gould-885_affinity_i-am-willing-to-believe-that-my-unobtain_1904997.jpg)