I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
I do not drink more than a sponge.
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.
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?
I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe. ] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!”
There's things Calvin Johnson does that nobody else can do. He's obviously huge, his physical attributes outweigh just about everyone in the league. But on top of that, he still has the ability to learn. He's like a sponge and soaks up anything that can help him as an athlete, as a person. On top of that, he's not soft. He catches the ball and tries to get upfield to score. He doesn't slide or go out of bounds. That's a rare find in the NFL.
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.
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.
Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.
I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.
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.
