some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor. Splat!


Brion Gysin

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Frieth in his own grease.
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PAUL LEARY
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OLIVER GASPIRTZ
Grace doesn't grease the wheels of the law. Grace isn't God's way of jury rigging a broken law. It's...
ADAM S. MILLER
Let him fry in his own grease.
UNKNOWN
Make sure the grease is hot enough. If the grease is hot enough, they will float real quick.
DONALD BEECHLER
As an end user, I see the results of the pads from the other side. There's no pool of grease at the ...
JOHN BOYER
We lost a giant of the conservation movement when Gaylord died a few years ago, but his legacy lives...
DIANA HULL
Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease sp...
DENNIS VICKERS
We surveyed attendance at 'Grease' over one weekend and of the 500 people who came to see the show 4...
MORRISSEY
Grease.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
ITALO CALVINO
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
MARK FEUERSTEIN
Elbow grease is the best polish
ENGLISH PROVERB
Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
CAMERON DIAZ
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
HENRY WHEELER SHAW
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
JOSH BILLINGS
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
ANTHONY DANIELS
Courtesy is the grease that lubricates society.
JIM GENOVESE
There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathemat...
WARREN EYSTER
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE
It's not really dirty and it doesn't really stink either. The grease traps are worse (than the septi...
KATHERINE HEATH
Man is a bad animal....
BRION GYSIN
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
JOSH BILLINGS
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
Humour is the grease that keeps relationships moving smoothly.
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When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex...
NICOLE WILLIAMS
She fries in her own grease
PROVERB
'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graph...
KYRIE IRVING
If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
RUTH REICHL
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
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A.F. STEWART
There's a drain in the floor, with grease traps and sewage drains. We built this building first clas...
CLIFF HALL
No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on th...
GREG LEMOND
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J. D. PARDO
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
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The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there were a rewards card...
RICK RIORDAN
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN
Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I’ve never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I stew all night in my own grease.
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I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditi...
BILLY PORTER
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
Life is the gift, itself. And any other additions, are the blessings!
FLOYD WILLIAMS
I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
MARTHA STEWART
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
DIANE SETTERFIELD
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
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There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Food establishments are often believed by the public to be the source of most fat and grease dischar...
DANA COLEMAN
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, but the wheel that does the squeaking is the one tha...
JOSH BILLINGS
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS
Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
It began here in the barbecue when grease dripped down.
JOE YIP
Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And tha...
PEYTON MANNING
Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our charac...
JOSS WHEDON
The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
STUART NADLER
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Unfortunately with this stuff, it's not just elbow grease.
KIM NELSON
Clearing his throat, Kai murmured, "You have no idea how to dance, do you?"
Cinder fixed her ga...
MARISSA MEYER
Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over o...
NEAL STEPHENSON
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

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