Grease Quotes - Page 5

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Punishment, Juice, Stew

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 649-652, 1922.

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• No government functions without the grease of corruption.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Government, Corruption, Function

  Carlos Fuentes (2007). “The Eagle's Throne: A Novel”, p.37, Random House

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• Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.

  Janet Malcolm

  Agreement, Hands, Order

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, 1989.

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• 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.

  William James

  History, Mind, Prejudice

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.134, William James

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• 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

  Night, Snow, Bed

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.209, Penguin

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Food, School, Years

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Hands, Evil

  Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.896, Feltrinelli Editore

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• 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

  Peace, Tea, Special

  Song: So Pure, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• 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

  Tone, Window, Deaf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Frances Osborne

  Splendor, Made, Fortune

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• 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. Id love the challenge now.

  J. D. Pardo

  Song, School, Busting Out

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• 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

  Dirty, Men, White

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Cutting, Oil, Perfect

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

  Russell Baker

  Together, Moral, Unnecessary

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• 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

  Faith, Wisdom, Lying

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• [Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

  Didi Conn

  Kids, Thinking, Long

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Consideration

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear”, p.268

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• 'Grease' is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy.

  Julianne Hough

  Life, Play, Waiting

  "Vanessa Hudgens to play Rizzo in the 2016 live version of Grease" by Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2015.

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• Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Moving, White, House

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Ducks, Competition, Wheels

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

  Voltaire

  Atheism, Charity, Paws

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• 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

  Baseball, Athlete, Kids

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• 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

  Kings, Pigs, Priesthood

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

  Tim Gunn

  Doe, Needs, World

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