Grease famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
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 -
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
-- Anthony Daniels -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
-- Calvin Trillin -
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times: 'Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don't do it.'
-- Caroline Rhea -
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!
-- Dev Patel -
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 -
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
-- Frances Osborne -
Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling...
-- Frankie Valli -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
-- Italo Calvino -
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 -
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.
-- Janet Yellen -
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 -
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 -
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
-- Josh Billings -
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 -
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 -
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 -
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.
-- Lucas Grabeel -
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
-- Mark Feuerstein -
Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
-- Mary Ann Shaffer -
Before 'Grease 2, I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2, nobody would touch me.
-- Maxwell Caulfield -
Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.
-- Michelle Malkin -
When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.
-- Michelle Ryan -
I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.
-- Mike Stern -
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 -
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 -
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
-- Otto von Bismarck -
I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.
-- Peter Gallagher -
Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.
-- Peyton Manning -
Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.
-- Randal Kleiser -
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
-- Robert Lowell -
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
-- Sara Paxton -
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
-- Victor Gold -
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, until you lose.
-- Lanny Bassham -
Before Grease 2, I was called the next Richard Gere, then after Grease 2, nobody would touch me.
-- Maxwell Caulfield -
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
