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• 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

  People, Weight, Care

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• I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

  William Shakespeare

  Married, Being Married

  "Shakespeare on Temperance: With Brief Annotations".

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.

  John Green

  Pain, Lost Love, People

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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• Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Cake, Tea

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• You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

  Cornelia Funke

  Morning, Real, Writing

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• A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Car, Legs

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.296, Penguin Books India

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• Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

  Tea Obreht

  Heart, Fists

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• It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

  Lauren Oliver

  Coffee, Lines, Way

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Cat, Use, Praying

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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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

  Water, Mouths, Body

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.857, Anchor

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• American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dirty, American English

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

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• Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

  Jim Rohn

  Learning, Differences, People

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• 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

  Children, Smart, Stupid

  "Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant". Interview with Nancy Miller, www.wired.com. April 21, 2008.

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• A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

  Lawrence Tierney

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• 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

  Trying, Actors, Way

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• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

  Bono

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

  Allen Johnson

  Thinking, History, Ignorant

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• 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

  Morning, Orthopedics, Necks

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• It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.

  Elie Metchnikoff

  Science, Cells, Principles

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Grieving

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• A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Faith, Thankful

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• I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

  Martha Stewart

  Eye, Learning, Opportunity

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• 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

  Jobs, Cameras, Different

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• I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

  Thomas A. Edison

  Names, Ideas, Trying

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