Sponge Quotes - page 2

The discovery of a toy duck in the soap dish, presumably the property of some former juvenile visitor, contributed not a little to this new and happier frame of mind. What with one thing and another, I hadn't played with toy ducks in my bath for years, and I found the novel experience most invigorating. For the benefit of those interested, I may mention that if you shove the thing under the surface with the sponge and then let it go, it shoots out of the water in a manner calculated to divert the most careworn. Ten minutes of this and I was enabled to return to the bedchamber much more the old merry Bertram. (P. G. Wodehouse)
'Ammu,' Chacko said, his voice steady and deliberately casual, 'is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely colouring everything?' Silence filled the car like a saturated sponge. Washed-up cut like a knife through a small thing. The sun shone with a shuddering sigh. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. View quote
Arundhati Roy
"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. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Male tumescence is an assertion of the separateness of objects. An erection is architectural, sky-pointing. Female tumescence, through blood or water, is slow, gravitational, amorphous. In the war for human identity, male tumescence is an instrument, female tumescence an obstruction. The fatty female body is a sponge. At peak menstrual and natal moments, it is locked passively in place, suffering wave after wave of Dionysian power. View quote
Camille Paglia
We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity. View quote
Jack Vance
I have been a course, I have been an eagle. I have been a coracle in the seas: I have been compliant in the banquet. I have been a drop in a shower; I have been a sword in the grasp of the hand I have been a shield in battle. I have been a string in a harp, Disguised for nine years, in water, in foam. I have been sponge in the fire, I have been wood in the covert. View quote
Taliesin
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. View quote
Aeschylus
Hence, when these men praised Philip as being more eloquent, more handsome, and to crown all, able to drink more than any one else, Demosthenes sneeringly replied that the first of these qualities was excellent in a sophist, the second in a woman, and the third in a sponge, but that they were none of them such as became a king. View quote
Plutarch
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry. View quote
Douglas Adams
When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem. View quote
Christine Todd Whitman
What is called "sponge stone" or "Pompeian pumice" appears to have been reduced by burning from another kind of stone to the condition of the kind which we see. The kind of sponge-stone taken from this region is not produced everywhere else, but only about Aetna and among the hills of Mysia which the Greeks call the "Burnt District," and in other places of the same peculiar nature. ...it seems to be certain that moisture has been extracted from the tufa and earth, by the force of fire, just as it is from limestone in kilns. (Vitruvius)
When you have drawn the same thing so many times that it seems that you know it by heart try to do it without the model; but having a tracing made of the model upon a thin piece of smooth glass and lay this upon the drawing you have made without the model. ...where you find that you have erred bear it in mind in order not to make the mistake again. ...if you cannot procure smooth glass to make a tracing... take a piece of very fine parchment well oiled and then dried, and when you have used it for for one drawing you can wipe this out with a sponge and do a second. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
You can freeze a nice sponge cake and then have a strawberry shortcake any time. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
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. View quote
Vir Das
Then there is the final possibility, my favorite. -Yes? -The final possibility is that I'm God. -You're God? -Just a theory, but the data are provocative. I mean, look at me. Faceless, shapeless, holey, undifferentiated, Jewish, inscrutable...and a hermaphrodite to boot. Years ago, I told you sponges cannot be fatally dismembered, for each part quickly becomes the whole. To wit, I am both immortal and infinite. -You're God? You're God herself? You? -The data are provocative. -God is a sponge? A sponge? There's not much comfort in that. -Agreed. -Sponges can't help us. -Neither can God, as far as I can tell. I'd be happy to see some contrary data. View quote
James K. Morrow
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. View quote
Peter O'Toole
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, I thought he was a funny, nerdy, squeaky-clean square. View quote
Stephen Hillenburg
I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge. View quote
Andrew Wylie
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. View quote
Bethany Mota
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. View quote
Chanda Kochhar
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 think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. View quote
Jeremy Northam
I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible. View quote
Jackie Evancho
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. View quote
Kellan Lutz
Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around. View quote
Mark Parker