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Quotes About Grease

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut!
~ James Joyce
He scraped a pork chop and two eggs out of the frying pan and slid them off the spatula onto a plate. "You sure you don't want any?" "You know how much grease is in that stuff?" "That's why I've never had problems with arthritis. The grease in your food oils your joints and your connective tissue. Nobody in my family has ever had arthritis." "Because they didn't live long enough," I replied.
~ James Lee Burke
Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.
~ Russell Crowe
I'll never forget the first moment I stepped on a Broadway stage. It was in Grease, and I knew it was momentous. My parents were there, and I got into a cab with them afterward and started crying.
~ Helene Yorke
The oven was thick with grease.
~ Wally Lamb
Such a leaky emotion, jealousy, it always showed through, like grease on a paper bag.
~ Leah Hager Cohen
Around eighteen, Dinah suddenly became interested in acting. I worked with her on This Property Is Condemned, a Tennessee Williams one-act, for her audition for the Actors Studio. Then came Marty Maraschino in Grease, then a running part in Soap, a hot TV series. Then the lead in Neil Simon's play I Ought to Be in Pictures. She was accepted by the Studio and quickly hired by Robert Redford as the girl in Ordinary People who commits suicide.
~ Lee Grant
If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word.
~ William Gibson
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.
~ William Gibson
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
~ Mark Feuerstein
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!'.
~ Gerard Butler
My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.
~ Lindsay Mendez
The novels, travel books and poems I read had a particular smell. The smell of cellars. An almost spicy smell, a mixture of dust and grease. Verdigris. Books today don't have a smell. They don't even smell of print.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
At Smithfield Frith is being shoveled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.
~ Hilary Mantel
I once sang 'Summer Nights ' from 'Grease ' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
~ Hugh Jackman
Eve:] "Tell me, Logan, doesn't all this subservience and courtesy stick in your throat?" [Logan:] "A little. But I can live with it. I learned a long time ago that if you're not the most important chip in a computer, you grease the wheels and don't get in the way.
~ Iris Johansen
There was another pause. We waited to learn if the dialogue was over. Then we set to eating again. We traded unwanted parts in silence, stuck our hands in cartoons of rippled fries. Wilder liked the soft white fries and people picked these out and gave them to him. Denise distributed ketchup in little watery pouches. The interior of the car smelled of grease and licked flesh. We traded parts and gnawed.
~ Don DeLillo
Dun-colored fathers tend to shy at obstacles, and therefore you do not want a father of this color, because life, in one sense, is nothing but obstacles, and his continual shying will reduce your nerves to grease.
~ Donald Barthelme
Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.
~ John Scalzi
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
~ Mark Feuerstein