Sponges Quotes

• 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

  Funny, Ocean, Humor

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 14, 2015

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• 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

  Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Michael Jordan

  Skills, Aggressive

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• Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Would Be, Wonder

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

  Janet Flanner

  Two, Ink, Week

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Take you me for a sponge?

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy

  William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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

  Robert M. Hensel

  Knowledge, Mind, Endless

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• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• 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

  People, Crafts, Knows

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Heart, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.111, Penguin

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sleep, Apes

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• How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Ocean, Humor

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• Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

  Bobbi Brown

  Inspiring, Graduation, Jobs

  "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.

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• I drink no more than a sponge.

  Francois Rabelais

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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

  John Ciardi

  Sugar, Milk, Written

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• 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, Blow, Glitter

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• 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, White, Differences

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Writing, Water, Ink

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

  Tomi Ungerer

  Art, Daily Life, Absorbing

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Inventor

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• Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Trying, Filters

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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

  Harry Houdini

  Flames, Gasoline, Mouths

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.37, 谷月社

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

  Sylvia Browne

  Tofu

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