“I'm ready - to love you.
I'm ready - to hold you.
I'm ready - I'm ready.
Ready as I'm gonna be.”
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
I'm Ready
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), When I Come Home
“I'm ready - to love you.
I'm ready - to hold you.
I'm ready - I'm ready.
Ready as I'm gonna be.”
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
I'm Ready
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
Otis Redding (1941–1967) American singer, songwriter and record producer
Respect, later covered by Aretha Franklin.
Song lyrics, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
So What, written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Funhouse (2008)
“I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants.”
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
Interview in reaction to comments made by Sir Alex Ferguson who highlighted the lack of homegrown players at Arsenal, (November 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/7090693.stm
“Not until I'm ready for you,
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: I don't know why I'm crying.
Am I suspended in Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you,
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all.
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964). <br class="br">Context: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.
“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) American actress
Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
"Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, 2006-06-12.