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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible. -- Jackie Evancho
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
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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
I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francois Rabelais
I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge. -- Sylvia Browne
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. -- John Ciardi
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. -- Janet Flanner
I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. -- Jeremy Northam
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. -- Harry Houdini
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. -- Martha Stewart
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. -- Itzhak Perlman
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
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
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
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
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
I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything. -- Bethany Mota
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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
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
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.
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
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
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
New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola. -- Nancy Gibbs
I colour my hair mousy brown and I wear makeup only on stage. I use Laura Mercier - something called Biscuit, I think. I run one tiny sponge over my face and cover the red blotches. If I've got some rouge, I'll bung it on my mouth and cheeks. -- Jane Birkin
Take you me for a sponge? -- William Shakespeare
Darkness fell like a wet sponge. -- John Ashbery
Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge? -- Terry Pratchett
I do not drink more than a sponge. -- Francois Rabelais
Try to be a filter, not a sponge. -- Stephen Chbosky
A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing. -- Lawrence Tierney
Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist? -- Tea Obreht
I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it. -- Tim Vine
I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge. -- William Shakespeare
Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around. -- Mark Parker
A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness. -- Joel Osteen
The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge. -- Robert M. Hensel
Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge. -- Richard Dawkins
[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ... -- Mary Mapes Dodge
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. -- Kara Walker
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....' -- Thomas A. Edison
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge. -- Lord Acton
My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn. -- Michael Jordan
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. -- Gore Vidal
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry. -- Douglas Adams
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. -- Alexander Eliot
I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art. -- Tomi Ungerer
I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me. -- Aeriel Miranda
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week -- Henry Ward Beecher
I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee! -- Rodney Dangerfield
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He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge. -- Stephen King
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. -- Hippolyte Taine
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me. -- Ira Sachs
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
Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. -- Simon Cowell
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 don't notice. -- Kevin Gates
Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that. -- Demetri Martin
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
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
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
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
Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn. -- Jerry Colangelo
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
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. -- Chanda Kochhar
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
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
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
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
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out. -- Aeschylus
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
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
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
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
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. -- Georges Simenon
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
Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted -- John Muir
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
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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
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
Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge. -- Reiko Saibara

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