Top 220 Sponge Quotes & Sayings

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

Take you me for a sponge?

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.

From what I've read, CM Punk is like a sponge when it comes to training.

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

You can freeze a nice sponge cake and then have a strawberry shortcake any time.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" "Actually, I think you misheard," Clary said. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," "I knew we should have left you a rat," said Jace.

If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.

I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

To be honest, I'm like a sponge so my inspiration and influences really can come from anywhere.

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

Chocolate fondant, creme brule, and sponge cake with jam, cream and fresh berries are always winners.

I'm a sponge for information.

I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

I've learned a lot, been a sponge and just continued to take criticism in stride in good positive energy.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

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.

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to be influenced, subtly, by everything I read, like a sponge. But then, what writers aren't? Being a literary sponge is one of the prerequisites for this insanity.

A natural sponge is not as funny. A square sponge also fit that squeaky-clean idea I was going for.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

I'm a sponge, man. I'm a learner.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.

You are like a sponge when you are young.

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

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

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

Traveling with my husband is great as he is a sponge for new languages and tries to learn them on our trips.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

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

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

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

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

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.

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.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

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.

A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on. At first, I drew a few natural sponges - amorphous shapes, blobs - which was the correct thing to do biologically as a marine science teacher. Then I drew a square sponge, and it looked so funny.

I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.

I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.

Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.

I was such a sponge with music.

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

A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.

My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.

Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

Maybe bring in sponge balls to learn the technique and gain that experience of actually challenging for a header.

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.

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.

I drink no more than a sponge.

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