Grease Quotations

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.

I'd always have 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.

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!

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

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.

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

I remember when 'Grease' came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, and literally I'd be screaming at her, 'Do it. Just do it!'.

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

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.

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.'

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

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.

The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

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.

Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

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.

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

Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

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

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

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?

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.

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.

October can be cold, and grease can take a long time to break down by then. There doesn't seem to be an easy solution.

I can't keep the mirrors clean in my condo. We're constantly having to clean and wipe grease up.

He was the grease that gets the wheel moving but doesn't have to be out front getting noticed. That's the type of guy Dick was. I truly feel that Brian is that way also.

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

It began here in the barbecue when grease dripped down.

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

People love to throw grease down (the drain). Bacteria doesn't break down grease, so it turns hard and doesn't go away. You shouldn't throw any type of grease down the drain.

Most businesses seem to have some type of grease trap. But some of them don't maintain them properly.

You almost hate to see a restart. It's good for the fans, but for the driver it's a crap shoot. It's like running on grease for a couple laps.

You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life.

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!

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

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.

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.

When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.

We just worked hard at it, ... They had the car set up on the edge. If something had happened and I had to hit the brakes, I wouldn't have had any. They were pushing everything to the limit, using special grease in the wheel bearings and things like that - stuff you wouldn't really need today, but you did then.

We love a great find. It's amazing how many people throw out perfectly good furniture. A little imagination and elbow grease can make all the difference in the world.

The grease just got hot and caught fire. Cafeteria workers put it out with a fire extinguisher.

We don't want to spend months de-watering grease until it is solid enough to haul to a landfill.

Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.

There's a drain in the floor, with grease traps and sewage drains. We built this building first class, ... There's a full security system. We spent $85,000 to blacktop the parking lot.

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

Put your hands down! Do NOT salute me! There are snipers throughout the area who'd love to grease an officer.

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. --Judibras

As an end user, I see the results of the pads from the other side. There's no pool of grease at the bottom of the container when I get home, yet grease removal doesn't take away from the flavor or moisture of the meat.

The businesses don't seem to be overly concerned about it. Many businesses already have good grease removal systems. The ordinance should not cost them a lot of money. I'm sure we will get some people from the establishments at the public hearing. I intend to read the ordinance and Paul Marino will read the proposed regulations aloud.

This is the waste as we believe the grease trap companies will bring it to us.

It's not really dirty and it doesn't really stink either. The grease traps are worse (than the septic tanks). People think it's a dirty job but I'll tell you this, I'd rather do this than be on a hog farm.

I want to recognize the character of our team, coming back and scoring two goals like that. They never say never. Was that a pretty setup goal? Either one of them? (It was) just puck on net. We tried to grease one out - that's why they call it a greasy goal.

In our society, the pre-adolescent girl, the nubile virgin, the sexually active woman, the mother and the grandmother are all expected to look and behave in the same way. The correct body outline for them all is girlish; their voices should remain sweet and low, their manner accommodating. ... Kicking off leg-lengthening high-heeled shoes, wiping the colored grease off your lips, raising your voice, letting the grey come through your hair, ceasing the simper that lifts your cheeks and letting your jowls settle into disapproving shapes is seen as letting yourself go.

I had a girl in Seattle sing 'Hopelessly Devoted to You,' you know, Olivia Newton-John from Grease and she just killed it, she rocked it out. That was cool.

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

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.

I bunked off school for eight days in a row to sit and watch Grease over and over.

John [Travolta] and I have remained very close friends ever since we did Grease. When I was told that "You're the One That I Want" was named the #1 duet in history and, during a text chat with John letting him know he said "we should record a Christmas song." Of course I said yes.

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

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

Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The last time I was on stage in New York was in 1972, downtown at the Eden Theatre in Grease .

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

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

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.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

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

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.

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

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

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

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

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

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

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.

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

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

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

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.