Sponge Quotes

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Eminem

Saying, Read, Sit

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

Men, Lives, Picture

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

Men, Away, Picture

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
Conan O'Brien

War, Saying, Since

I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
John Ciardi

Written, Warm, Milk

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
Peter O'Toole

Time, Heart, Won

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.
Debra Winger

Good, Business, Lost

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

Movies, Different, Wanted

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

Morning, End, Bad

I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.
Kellan Lutz

Age, Different, Young

I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.
Sylvia Browne

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.
Tim McGraw

Work, Best, Last

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Harry Houdini

May, Mouth, Lips

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

Goes, Songs, Guess

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
Itzhak Perlman

Nothing, After, While

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
Jeremy Northam

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
Martha Stewart

Great, Find, Ideas

Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.
Robin Cousins

Successful, Understand, Light

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
Lawrence Tierney

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

Age, Until, Three

Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry.
Mikhail Kutuzov

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