Famous quotes containing the word ready:
“a child who traced voyages
indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country
remembers the first river, the first
field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building,
that new smell, and remembers
the walls of the garden, the first light.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“I dont know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? Theyre going to hear it.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“BOSWELL. I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others as sensibly as many say they do. JOHNSON. Sir, dont be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)