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Grease Quotes

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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

Authors on Grease Quotes: Josh Billings Gaylord Perry Olivia Newton-John Dan Simmons Ava DuVernay Russell Baker Blaize Clement Izzy Stradlin Phyllis Diller Frankie Valli Voltaire Benicio Del Toro Mike Yaconelli Walter Savage Landor Eve Arden Jeffrey Archer Malcolm X Shel Silverstein Alanis Morissette Peter Gallagher Leo Tolstoy Sara Paxton Duff Goldman Maxwell Caulfield Frances Osborne William James danah boyd Joseph Heller Larry Holmes Albert Einstein Cameron Diaz Helene Hanff Randal Kleiser
2.
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
Calvin Trillin

3.
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?
Al Pacino

4.
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
Carlos Fuentes

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I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

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I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.
Izzy Stradlin

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
Voltaire

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The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.
Carl Sandburg

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Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.
Michelle Malkin

10.
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Italo Calvino

11.
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
Benicio Del Toro

12.
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George Eliot

13.
Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling.
Frankie Valli

14.
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
Jeffrey Archer

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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Victor Gold

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I'd always have it (grease( in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.
Gaylord Perry

17.
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
Robert Lowell

18.
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.
Tim Gunn

20.
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
Anthony Daniels

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
Leo Tolstoy

22.
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.
Ava DuVernay

23.
Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease
Malcolm X

24.
ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.
Liu Shaoqi

25.
I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.
Elvis Presley

26.
Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.
Gaylord Perry

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If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.
Eve Arden

28.
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
Henry James

29.
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck

30.
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.
Helene Hanff

31.
I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.
Peter Gallagher

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Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.
Blaize Clement

33.
I stew all night in my own grease.
Nathaniel Cotton

34.
Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
Terry Pratchett

35.
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, until you lose.
Lanny Bassham

36.
Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
Cameron Diaz

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Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.
danah boyd

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When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Leigh Steinberg

39.
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce

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Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Frances Osborne

41.
Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.
Joseph Heller

42.
Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.
Mike Yaconelli

43.
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

44.
As for highlights, of course "Grease" changed my life and I will always be grateful for that experience.
Olivia Newton-John

45.
When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.
Lucas Grabeel

46.
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
Mark Feuerstein

47.
Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.
Alanis Morissette

48.
I kind of feel like I've been eating professionally for a long time. I've tasted everything. If there's a sausage, you know what? I know exactly what it tastes like. I love them all. But right now it's more important for me to not have all that grease and fat in my body.
Duff Goldman

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Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.
Natalie Goldberg

50.
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. It's pretty simple really. I just dive in and start digging. Yes, I'm fortunate to know the in's and out's of a true studio-level marketing campaign. But really, anyone who is diligent and well-researched can pull it off too. Its easier for me, but it doesn't make it impossible for others.
Ava DuVernay