Quotes About The Squeaky Wheel

#1. I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

Aimee Bender

#2. The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

John Peers

#3. Plenty of Disney kids are perfectly normal and love what they do. But you always hear about the people who aren't doing well. It's kind of like the squeaky wheel.

Ashley Greene

#4. Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

Rachel Nichols

#5. The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

Carl Sandburg

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

Tim Gunn

#7. A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

Maya Angelou

#8. Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.

Solon

#9. When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself - a masterpiece of God.

Carl Schmitt

#10. I supposed that when anyone accustomed to working with the mind is faced with a straightforward action, there's a tendency to embellish, to make it overly clever. On paper there's a certain symmetry. Now that I'm faced with the prospect of executing it I realize how hideously complicated it is.

Donna Tartt

#11. We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

Dion Fortune

#12. Be a squeaky wheel but talk nice

Blue Balliett

#13. Her work sought to challenge all of us critically to reflect on the things we find comfort in believing without question.

Thabo Mbeki

#14. Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

Saint Augustine

#15. Most people can't wait to leave kidhood behind. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt.

Dean Koontz

#16. I think God's blessing might have everything to do with Him and His riches, and nothing to do with whether we deserve it.

Susan May Warren

#17. I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire - where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!

Catherynne M Valente

#18. I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.

Kelis

#19. Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

Dave Matthews