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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. -- Steven Wright
Take you me for a sponge? -- William Shakespeare
I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francois Rabelais
I do not drink more than a sponge. -- Francois Rabelais
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. -- John Ciardi
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge. -- Lord Acton
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. -- Janet Flanner
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week -- Henry Ward Beecher
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. -- Itzhak Perlman
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
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
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
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
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If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice. -- Kelly Corrigan
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. -- Virginia Woolf
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work. -- Janet Frame
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art. -- Gore Vidal
~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~ -- Katie Couric
How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there? -- Steven Wright
Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while. -- Brian P. Cleary
Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges? -- Stephen Hawking
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to. -- LeVar Burton
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
I vacuumed my piano, hoping to soak up the last of the concertos. I should sell musical sponges, for the lover in the kitchen in all of us. -- Jarod Kintz
A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words. -- Marcus Mumford
Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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