Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player
"My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn."
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Sponges
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Take you me for a sponge?"
Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge."
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'"
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted"
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"American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge."
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"The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge."
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"Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that."
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"He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry."
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"I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge."
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"Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?"
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