Soaks Quotes

They are a way to play the growth in the Internet from the hardware side... The Internet just soaks up more and more memory, and more and more bandwidth, and both these companies are ways to play it. They're not cheap, they're really expensive. We pulled a little money out of them recently, as a matter of fact, but we continue to hold most of our positions in these stocks. - Jim Melcher

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. - Abraham Cowley

The sky is the limit for Dina. She has tremendous potential and ability and soaks everything in we tell her. You can see she loves track. - Nate Robinson

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. - Scott Tucker

She wants to complete her schooling and be in control of her own business empire. I would say there's no question she's got some great goals, more than being a golfer. She's learning Chinese, Japanese. She soaks up so much information. - David Leadbetter

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible; we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it. - William James

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. - Tertullian

I think as the reality soaks in, the result's not disappointing, but it's not up 20 percent either. - Andrew Goodsall

I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks. - Audrey Tautou

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation. - Paul Ryan