I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
Bear Bryant

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
Tom Peters

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
Henny Youngman

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry Miller

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"
Johnny Carson

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Ambrose Bierce