Preparing Quotes

I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.

At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something.

I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and the restorer of all things important to building the kingdom of God and preparing for the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows.

I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

Mosley is bigger than me. He's fast and his hand speed is still there. He's faster than most of my opponents. He's also preparing hard and he's also good, so we never underestimate our opponent.

Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.

My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone.

Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

Everything I was doing when I didn't have deals was preparing me for when I did

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Preparing for another opponent isn't very glamorous. But it's Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.