Quotes of: Ready Keyword

...life's about accumulating wrinkles, deep as rivers and as wide as is needed to travel along their path, so that by the time you're ready to die, your life can be read.

The Absurd Demise of Poulnabrone

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

Hamlet

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

As I Lay Dying

addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.

Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll

Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

Ready Player One

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice little paper packages, ready for the kitchen.

Sabine

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

The Maltese Falcon

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

More Poems

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

Magic Study

Smartass Disciple: Why men don't ready yet to join the intergalactic confederation? Master of Stupidity: Men could make them laugh to death. It'd be too risky for them.

Master of Stupidity

I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.

Norwegian Wood

Dearest, the dark will take a long span. Get a lantern or torch ready in hand To lighten the right path so that we can Cautiously avoid thorns in the night. (Navigator)

Living In Differences

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

Love is a Dog from Hell

So what, you assumed you’d show up before the dance and I’d magically be ready to go? I need warning to get beautiful.

Long Night Moon

I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.

Sleepwalk with Me

Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.

Something like Normal

Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms.

Springwater

If I were an alcoholic, I’d work at a wine farm, where grape booze grows on trees, bottled and ready to chug.

So many chairs, and no time to sit