Quotes About Grease

#1. The grease from the awful lunch buffet took to the air, becoming more a skin coating than a smell.

Harlan Coben

#2. 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

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

Tim Gunn

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

Michelle Malkin

#5. It's been nice to see you again. Another of those things you just say, a bit of grease to keep the wheels turning,

Stephen King

#6. Wrapping his arms around her waist, he kissed her cheek. She inhaled his masculine scent, he smelled of engine grease, citrus hand cleaner and man. She turned in his arms and laid her cheek over his beating heart, treasuring the haven of his embrace ...

Tamara Hoffa

#7. 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.

James Truslow Adams

#8. On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

Albert Einstein

#9. The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#10. Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare.

Nancy B. Brewer

#11. Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. 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

#13. I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.

Steve Martin

#14. 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

#15. At least two of those present tonight were wearing Granny Weatherwax's famous goose-grease-and-sage chest liniment.

Terry Pratchett

#16. She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.

Glendon Swarthout

#17. He passed the lighter down the table until Descartes held it in one hand while setting the greasy cylinder down on the table. After smoothing it out, Descartes sparked up the lighter. With the lighter drawn near the grease, the aroma of burnt hair filled the board room.

Dylan Callens

#18. Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling ...

Frankie Valli

#19. 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

#20. Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light.

William Shakespeare

#21. They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms.

Tara Sim

#22. 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

#23. As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.

A.F. Stewart

#24. Anoint the saucepan with a touch of sunflower seed oil. Grease its scars, and as soon as the oils heats up, sprinkle with flour, pour on the bouillon and the moonshine strong as the hearts of the village man who knows not how to love with his words, only with his actions, and ass the chopped apple.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

#25. An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot

Mira Jacob

#26. All you have to do is sip hot water frequently throughout the day. As mentioned earlier, ama is sticky and greasy by nature. Hot water can dissolve ama from your system just as it dissolves grease from dirty dishes, and it can accomplish this gradually and comfortably. There

Deepak Chopra

#27. 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.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#28. An angry electronic twang came from the Artoo unit. "Don't call me a mindless philosopher," Threepio snapped back, "you overweight, unstreamlined glob of grease!" Threepio

George Lucas

#29. No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

Geraldine Brooks

#30. 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

#31. I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.

Laura Osnes

#32. My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.

Charles M. Blow

#33. When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

Phyllis Diller

#34. If I'm in this war, too, then I should be upset. You know I'm not the type to think collecting bacon grease and scrap metal will keep anyone from dying. How about you give me the words so you don't have to hold them in? It's the least I can do.

Suzanne Hayes

#35. 'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Kyrie Irving

#36. Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

Robert Lowell

#37. I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

Elizabeth Olsen

#38. Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

Terry Pratchett

#39. Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been allowed to rot on his stool. The single round light is dappled with the bodies of dead insects, and the walls are decorated with spatters and dribbles of grease.

David Mitchell

#40. You know why the International Worker's Day is important? Look around you, everything you see, every building, every school, every hospital, every road was built by the workers, by their elbow grease! And that's why it is important!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#41. Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Ambrose Bierce

#42. Mental nausea of daily squash
flabby cauliflower
and grease dripping slick and sheepish
onto the placid plate of mind.

Sylvia Plath

#43. My first crush was on John Travolta in 'Grease.'

Hilary Duff

#44. I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

Russell Crowe

#45. The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

#46. Huh. Leo scowled at his monitor. In his tattered work shirt and grease-splattered jeans, he looked like he'd just lost a wrestling match with a locomotive.

Rick Riordan

#47. I'm ashamed, this is my mama. No matter how fly my braids is, how I grease my skin, scalp, no matter how many jew'ries, this is my mother. -Said by Precious Jones in Push

Sapphire.

#48. the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Josh Billings

#49. 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

#50. I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!

Shel Silverstein

#51. Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.

Dennis Vickers

#52. You looked really sexy with all that chicken grease on your face. Ripping the meat away with your teeth like a savage. God. I just want to marry you.

Colleen Hoover

#53. 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

#54. After months of the mindless elbow grease, incessant ship dusting, alarming drills, and rigid military bearing we were expected to uphold at all times, we were fully charged by each other's friction and on the brink of eruption.

Maggie Young

#55. Straightening, I asked, "What do you believe in?"
"Old love songs, best friends, the collected works of J.R.R.Tolkien, crispy pork egg rolls with just the right amount of grease, the Big Boss and eternity."
"The Big Boss?"
Zachary pointed up, as if to heaven.
"Pious,"I teased.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#56. Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

Sarah Lewis

#57. 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

#58. Grease-smeared dogtop as his head dropped between

Stephen King

#59. Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange tie. This wasn't the worst of it, though; he had evidently tried to tame his hair, using large quantities of what appeared to be axle grease.

Anonymous

#60. There was a strong odor of electricity, grease and existential bitterness.

K.A. Bedford

#61. If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.

Ruth Reichl

#62. Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.

Joe Green

#63. 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

#64. Did you just seriously quote Grease? I think I'm gonna have to revoke your man card.

Elizabeth Sharp

#65. Chicken butt fried in grease want a piece

Christopher Nicole

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

Leo Tolstoy

#67. This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.

Chila Woychik

#68. I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out.

Billy Porter

#69. 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

#70. Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and body grease.

David Mitchell

#71. C-3PO - Thou shalt not label me A mindless, brute philosopher! Nay, nay, Thou overladen glob of grease, thou imp, Thou rubbish bucket fit for scrap, thou blue And silver pile of bantha dung! Now, come, And get thee hence away lest someone sees.

Ian Doescher

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

Frances Osborne

#73. 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

#74. Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Cameron Diaz

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

Peter Gallagher

#76. He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

Henry James

#77. Hey, aren't you that guy who fixes cars?" Katie asked,
looking at my grease-covered work pants as if she couldn't believe I ever left the garage.
"Yeah, they let me out every now and then," I said.

Carolee Dean

#78. Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

Leonard Susskind

#79. I god, Ah can't see what uh woman uh yo' stability would want tuh be treasurin' all dat gum-grease from folks dat don't even own de house dey sleep in. 'Tain't no earthly use. They's jus' some puny humans playin' round de toes uh Time.

Zora Neale Hurston

#80. No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carlos Fuentes

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

Maxwell Caulfield

#84. When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.

Lucas Grabeel

#85. When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

Laura Osnes

#86. Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Calvin Trillin

#87. The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Illinois Jacquet

#88. Salt! Salt! And grease! Greee-suh!"Ax

Katherine Applegate

#89. Few seem to be able to eat a turkey leg at Disneyland without splattering tsunami scale grease, so grab plenty of napkins or wear a bib, tablecloth or scuba suit.

Leslie Le Mon

#90. She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#91. Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!"
This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko's blinding light. "Why would the prince dance with me?"
Iko's fan hummed as she sought an answer. "Because you won't have grease on your face this time.

Marissa Meyer

#92. Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Otto Von Bismarck

#93. Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.

Leo Tolstoy

#94. 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

#95. When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.

Ben Lerner

#96. Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#97. I guess I can swing it,then." A night free from cow print and grease? Bleep yes I could swing it. "So where to? Italy? Iceland? Ooh,I could go for Japan.

Kiersten White

#98. 'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.

Olivia Newton-John

#99. The minutiae of the common man is the grease that slicks the gears of civilization. She

Brian McClellan

#100. Not hungry,' Case managed. His brain was deep-fried. No, he decided, it had been thrown into hot fat and left there, and the fat had cooled, a thick dull grease congealing on the wrinkled lobes, shot through with greenish-purple flashes of pain. 'You

William Gibson