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  • Retiring is getting ready to die. -- Rodger Ward
  • Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. -- Henry Ford
  • We are always getting ready to live but never living. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready. -- Denise Richards
  • We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades. -- Lisa Bonet
  • I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going. -- Carrie Underwood
  • We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live. -- Boris Yeltsin
  • Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
  • It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work. -- Andy Rooney
  • I'm getting ready to change a lot of opinions about me. -- Brandon Jacobs
  • I think there's something special and timeless about girls getting ready together. -- Erin Heatherton
  • Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. -- John Barth
  • Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service. -- Adrian Rogers
  • I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live. -- Anna Brackett
  • The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad. -- Rajneesh
  • We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades -- Lisa Bonet
  • I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on. -- Sandra Bullock
  • Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. -- Gail Godwin
  • Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do. -- Courtney Summers
  • I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready. -- Zoey Deutch
  • When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. -- Sally Ride
  • Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun. -- Jude Law
  • I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out. -- Sienna Miller
  • The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game. -- Tom Brady
  • The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. -- Epicurus
  • I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.? -- Jose Bautista
  • This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally. -- Ray Nagin
  • My daily style is easy and effortless - I don't like to take too much time getting ready. -- Kourtney Kardashian
  • Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. -- Raymond Carver
  • The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. -- Kin Hubbard
  • Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part. -- Gabriel Iglesias
  • The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row. -- Bob Dylan
  • I used to watch my Cuban mother getting ready singing 'Dos Gardenias,' so to me fashion has always been fun. -- Maria Canals Barrera
  • Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. -- Wynton Marsalis
  • We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry. -- Jay Weatherill
  • When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care. -- Shenae Grimes
  • The only thing I think about is getting ready for every five days, to go out and get ready for my team. -- Ubaldo Jimenez
  • We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it. -- Will Rogers
  • That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired. -- George W. Bush
  • If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball. -- Emilie de Ravin
  • There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished. -- Janis Karpinski
  • People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach. -- Pete Carroll
  • People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now. -- Estelle
  • If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started. -- Drew Houston
  • This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table -- George W. Bush
  • I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. -- John Zorn
  • People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table. -- Charlie Manuel
  • The greatest joy in getting ready for the film is that there aren't many reference points for the journey and you've got to define it for yourself. -- William Fichtner
  • I'm not too vain - I sometimes take pride in my appearance, but I stick to the rule never to spend longer than a girl getting ready. -- Nicholas Hoult
  • I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're just happy I'm in work! -- Emilia Clarke
  • Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things. -- Zoe Saldana
  • Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life. -- DeVon Franklin
  • Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be an interesting story to tell. -- Ed Gordon
  • Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. -- Keanu Reeves
  • After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts. -- Kyriacos C. Markides
  • Basically, I really like to train. That's what keeps me busy during the offseason - just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year. -- Wes Welker
  • I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up -- Michael Phelps
  • It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life -- not getting ready for a red carpet. -- Marion Cotillard
  • My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more? -- Mike Tyson
  • When you look around the room during meetings and practice, you see that everyone has the same goal. It's obvious by the way that everyone is preparing and getting ready. -- Eric Kendricks
  • When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion. -- Paul Tudor Jones
  • In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground. -- George Eliot
  • I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb. -- Jonathan Richman
  • I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.' -- Shawn Johnson
  • She doesn't play nice with others Sadi huffed out. So I'm in the process of adjusting her attitudeAnd I'm in the process of getting ready to cut out your heart, bitch -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
  • 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
  • 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
  • There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders. -- Molly Harper
  • I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table. -- Drew Barrymore
  • I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table. -- Drew Barrymore
  • People go, 'Hey, did you do anything special for the Super Bowl?' Well no, I like to think I do the same amount of work every week getting ready for a game. -- Phil Simms
  • Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud. -- Ryan Lochte
  • Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster! -- Jay Leno
  • sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks... -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent. -- Richelle Mead
  • When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs. -- Cindy Crawford
  • It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. -- Ben Stein
  • When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again. -- Lauren Conrad
  • God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you! -- Paula White
  • When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. -- Billy Sunday
  • I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can. -- Aubrey Plaza
  • So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. -- Sally Ride
  • I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is. -- Maurice Sendak
  • I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson. -- Earl Campbell
  • Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him. -- Louise J. Kaplan
  • You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up. -- Hank Aaron
  • I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to. -- Tony Robbins
  • As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years. -- David Rubenstein
  • We're working on being consistently in the top 10, top 12 and getting ready for next year's Chase. We need the make the Chase and one way we need to do it is to be consistent and starting running in the top 12. -- Kasey Kahne
  • I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love. -- Merry Clayton
  • The week preceding the game is just as important, if not more important, to prepare yourself mentally to make sure you know the ins and outs of the opposition. It's all about getting ready for Jacksonville. It's a one-game season. -- Tedy Bruschi
  • As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years. -- David Rubenstein
  • As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things. -- Mike McCue
  • I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of 'Morning Joe,' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon. -- Mika Brzezinski
  • I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense. -- Casey Affleck
  • Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration. -- Roman Romanenko
  • I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always. -- Katherine Anne Porter
  • I've learned all my hair and makeup tricks on the set, and I incorporate all kinds of things when I'm getting ready, and I'm big on blotting papers. I get a very shiny forehead, which I like to call my inner glow coming out. -- Elizabeth Banks
  • It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. -- William Thomas Ellis
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  • Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town. -- Barbara Hambly
  • And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. -- Wilt Chamberlain
  • I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty. -- George W. Bush
  • We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like on Sunday mornings, usually church-related or something. In my house, it was getting ready for church and your sister was getting her hair fried. -- Denzel Washington
  • This isn't funny. She was almost killed.' 'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.' 'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.' 'I just need a name. -- Derek Landy
  • As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your life. The view completely blows you away. The real challenge is getting past the excitement and getting focused and down to work. -- Thomas Marshburn
  • There" is not your dream, "here" is.. To create it, to become it and to live in it. The journey of your triumphs and setbacks are apart of the process now,stop getting ready to get ready and start living in the essence of your movements NOW. -- Nikki Rowe
  • There is not your dream, here is To create it, to become it and to live in it. The journey of your triumphs and setbacks are apart of the process now,stop getting ready to get ready and start living in the essence of your movements NOW. -- Nikki Rowe
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  • I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. Oh, Im trying to choose my next project. This is a job. Sometimes your next job is so you can provide for your family; your kids are 16 and getting ready to go to college. -- Michael Cudlitz
  • I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. 'Oh, I'm trying to choose my next project.' This is a job. Sometimes your next job is so you can provide for your family; your kids are 16 and getting ready to go to college. -- Michael Cudlitz
  • I think it's something that we said collectively, in terms of the fact that we was getting ready to face probably the biggest storms of our life, and we had to stand strong for what we believe in and carry on the legacy we just laid down for society. -- John Carlos
  • I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
  • Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes. -- Susan Sontag
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