Top 55 Sponge Quotes

I need to go play the right way, listen to LeBron and be a sponge and try to soak up what he’s going to tell me.

I try to instill in the guys to work hard, be humble, be blessed, stay in the gym, be a sponge and soak as much intelligence as a young player and embrace it.

I knew I wanted to create a character who was nerdy and kind of square, so when I drew a square sponge, everything came together. And originally his name was SpongeBoy, but there we couldn’t use that for trademark reasons.

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.

When you set out to do a show about a sponge, you can’t anticipate this kind of craze. We just try to make ourselves laugh, then ask ourselves if it’s appropriate for children.

I like ‘Sponge Bob’ and ‘The Last Airbender.’ I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

Growing up, I was surrounded by many great men in my life. I watched them and learned, taking it in like a sponge.

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.

I think because I went to school and because I’m a student, I’m so open and I’m a sponge, and I just wanna learn everything to make sure everything is perfect.

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.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

You are like a sponge when you are young.

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

I’m a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I’ve made some psychedelic birthday cakes.

My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that’s when they’re like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn’t want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.

I’m super impressed with Maxey. I love the kid. I love his heart, I love what he brings to the table. He’s a sponge, and he’s always trying to get better.

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

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.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child’s brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

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.

I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.

I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I’m always absorbing. I mean, when people say, ‘What is your inspiration?’ I could throw up. I mean, I’m inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I’m still here.

I’m a sponge for information.

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

I’m a sponge when it comes to stories. I’d say everything influences me in some way, but for ‘Red Queen’ in particular, I was really affected by the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series by George R. R. Martin.

You can learn at any age, but when you are young, you are like a sponge, and when you are introduced to more different types of things before the age of seven and eight, then you get fascinated by that.

A sponge is quite simple. You weigh ingredients, mix, and put it in the oven. With pastry, you manhandle it, shape it, fold it. You have to be involved with it; there is more jeopardy, more risk. But it’s like making a casserole. There’s a flurry of activity to begin with; then it’s about leaving it to rest.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I never really imagined a show about a sponge going past our first season. I thought maybe we’d have a cult following, and we’d be gone after one season.

Cara, ever since you told me at the age of four that you wanted to be Claudia Schiffer, while you were naked in the bath with a sponge on your head, I knew you were destined for great things.

I’m just going to be a sponge. I’m going to be a good teammate. I’m going to be a hard worker, earn my respect first.

You know, I came in as a rookie and didn’t get to play much at all, really. Became a sponge. I had to go through the rough, get cut a couple times, take the G-league route, which was the D-league back then.

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He’s just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

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

I’m a sponge. I sometimes don’t want to go out of my house because it’s like, ‘Who’s going to make me cry today?’

It’s a magpie aesthetic: If something is hideous, that’s interesting. It’s kind of the same sensibility that Andy Warhol had. He was interested in everything and soaked up what he saw like a sponge.

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.

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

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, ‘Where do I want to be?’ but ‘What do I want to learn from this?’ Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

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

You’re an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you’re a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

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

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

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.

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.

As an actor, I do not come with preconceived notions. I am like clay that can be moulded or like a sponge that can absorb things. I do what the director wants me to do.

I played Miley Cyrus’ grandma on ‘Hannah Montana,’ and the first time I was on, they said, ‘We love having veterans like you on because she’s like a little sponge, and she’s really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you’re teaching her.’