You can't expect the Rapid Reaction Force to be ready immediately.

-Anonymous
  On the British force being sent to Bosnia. Military spokesperson interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

I would suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Two Cheers for Democracy,'Books That Influenced Me'.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

-Jonson, Ben
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

Late one morning, I awoke in the capital of a certain countryand found myselfönot changed overnight into a large brown beetle, nor feeling exactly on top of the worldömerely ready to go home.

-Kaiko,Takeshi
  'The Crushed Pellet', in Five Thousand Runaways (translated by Cecilia Segawa Seigle).

They were always†getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

-Reston,James B(arrett)
  Of John F, Robert F and Edward M Kennedy. Deadline.