Grease Quotes

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

  Frankie Valli

  Feelings, Groove, Heard

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• 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

  Kindness, Giving, Benefits

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• 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

  Kids, Firsts, Get Up

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

  Italo Calvino

  Floating, Dull, Novel

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Hate, Long, Kickers

  "The Kicker" (ca. 1870).This citation is traditional among quotation dictionaries, but it must be noted that no Billings poem called "The Kicker" or with words like these has ever been veri?ed.The earliest documented version appears in the Wall Street Journal, 20 May 1910: "The wheel that squeaks the loudest / Is the wheel that gets the grease." The saying is now proverbial, often with a form like "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."

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

  Michelle Malkin

  Party, America, Sugar

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• The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

  Victor Gold

  Complaining, Wheels, Belief

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• It doesn't matter if you win or lose, until you lose.

  Lanny Bassham

  Cheer, Winning, Matter

  "In the company of women" by Tim Lott, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

  Cameron Diaz

  Hangover, Cures

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• If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.

  Eve Arden

  Athlete, Athletic, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Principal McGee". "Grease", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• 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

  Football, Player, Age

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

  Peter Gallagher

  Hair, Broadway, Truck

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• Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

  Frankie Avalon

  Song, Kids, Dvds

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• 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

  Umpires, Two, Wipe

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

  Anthony Daniels

  Books And Movies, Philosopher, Geek

  "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• 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

  Fun, Mean, Rocks

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, Slippery

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

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

  Josh Billings

  Business, Complaining, Wheels

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• 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

  Baseball, Player, Balls

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

  Henry James

  Sarcastic, Sausage

  Henry James (2011). “Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years: A Critical Edition”, p.162, University of Virginia Press

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

  Calvin Trillin

  Strong, Texas, Belief

  Calvin Trillin (2011). “Trillin on Texas”, p.1, University of Texas Press

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• The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.

  Lady Gaga

  Sexy, Stars, Touching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Mom, Song, Voice

  Interview With Sarah Paulson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• For a long time I didn't know what I wanted or what I loved to do. Friends had that blessing and I remember thinking when I would have my turn. Then, in 9th Grade I sort of fell into playing Danny Zuko randomly in that years GREASE themed portion of the dance show. The moment I hit the stage I think something in me knew. Even in rehearsals. I'd fallen in Love.

  E.J. Bonilla

  Blessing, Thinking, Years

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• 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

  Networking, Machines, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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