Grease Quotes

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. (Leo Tolstoy)
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. View quote
Josh Billings
No government functions without the grease of corruption. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. View quote
Albert Einstein
I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy. View quote
Hugh Jackman
Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it.... Someone just ripped off my eyelids. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. View quote
Anthony Daniels
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me! View quote
Dev Patel
Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. View quote
Frankie Avalon
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. View quote
Gaylord Perry
I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now. (J. D. Pardo)
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. View quote
Leigh Steinberg
Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me. View quote
Maxwell Caulfield
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. View quote
Mike Yaconelli
Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie. View quote
Randal Kleiser
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. View quote
William James
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. View quote
George Eliot
When I think of soul I think of grease 'cause ain't nothin' no good without the grease. View quote
Tina Turner
There is a story (not sure if the details are true but the concept sure is) of General Black Jack Pershing fighting the Muslim terrorists in the Philippines in the 1890's. He knew the Muslims were "terrorized” by the idea that contact with pig blood or fat would doom them to hell forever so he had all his soldiers dip their bullets in pig blood. Hmmm? If I was a soldier in one of those countries I would let them THINK I had hollow points packed with pig's blood! Maybe all of us should pour bacon grease around our property and dip our bullets and knives in pig blood or fat! Hmmm? Cheap protection. View quote
Kent Hovind
Oh, I hate the thought of all those costumes and grease paint! When I think that characters like Kundry will now have to be dressed up, those dreadful artists' balls immediately spring into my mind. Having created the invisible orchestra, I now feel like inventing the invisible theatre! View quote
Richard Wagner
I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun. (Kristen Bell)
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. View quote
Janet Yellen
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. View quote
Dan Simmons
He knows, of course, that a criminal organization like the Verbover ring can't flourish without the ready services of bagman and secret lobbyists, without regular applications of grease and body English to the works of government. View quote
Michael Chabon