Sponge Quotes

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. We were all encouraged to believe that the classics of the theater were the fiery hoops through which you`d have to pass if you were going to have any self-esteem as a performer. It never occurred to me that that was the case. One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. The great tradition of liberalism in England is essentially a sponge that absorbs all possibility of change. America looked different to me: the idea of America as a place of infinite possibilities was defined for me through the movies. I`m glad I did the classical work that I did, but it just wasn`t for me. I`m a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that`s the most obvious.

(on fellow "flapper" actress Clara Bow) I liked Clara. A very warm, sweet, generous girl. What great potential! But she wasn`t a finisher. Her mind was like a sponge, but she didn`t have the concentration or ability to see it through. She was quite ingenuous. People would go into shock over her salty language.

Every night I massage my face with a cream that I remove with a sponge to thoroughly clean my skin; then I apply a lotion and a moisturizer.

They`re trying to squeeze a sponge that`s already pretty dry,

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.

I`m kind of like a sponge in a way. Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

I`d love to have the opportunity to do that, ... Obviously I`m going to be a rookie, so I`m going to try to learn as much as a I can, be open-minded. And be a student. . . . I`m going to learn from one of the best guys in Mario Lemieux. So I`m going to try and be a sponge in that way and learn as much as I can from him.

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.

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 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.

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

And when you wipe up, use a paper towel, not a sponge. In household tests, 15 percent of sponges contained salmonella, which then gets spread wherever you wipe.

Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I`m a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, `What does that light do?` If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.

He absolutely loves McDonald`s, especially their chicken nuggets. They don`t get a lot of fruit over there and so he`s absolutely a sponge for Vitamin C. The first day he was here he had eight bananas!

Just the speed of the game, and also on the defensive side as well. It`s not the same as in college. A lot of things are different, but I`m learning. I`m like a sponge, I`m absorbing everything.

It acts like a toxin sponge,

He didn't miss much, ... I told Colin when he got here, if he listens to what we tell him, then he's going to make money playing this game for a long, long time. And so far he's been like a sponge. He's soaked everything in that we've told him.

She`s like a sponge: she soaks up everything that is being said, ... We talk about nature all the time, and we read to her three to four books every night; books on amphibians, reptiles, but also other books on other topics are mixed in there.

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week